I bought the Magni for my Modi now and I'm very happy with them. I couldn't find this good looking combo (I also like that the DAC and Amp are separate) for this good price without unnecessary features in Germany so I can recommend it to the latter ones and others. edit: I only don't like the...

I'm using a Modi with Ubuntu 13.10, no problems, just plugged in and selected as output source. You may try it and let us know [about this Audio GD unit].

They will also never leave my collection.

Thanks for your infos. Bad that maybe there's no price-similar in-ear alternative to the HD600 but somehow doesn't surprise me. Maybe I just go with IE80 until a 600-in-ear is found/released.     AFAIK even the HE-500 is not necessarily better than the 600. I'd say only for bass they better.

That's why I'm asking :) Obviously there's a good reason for in-ears to exist. So maybe some in-ear from Sennheiser would be a good HD600 equivalent?

What would be an in-ear equivalent for the 600? (I understand it may be not as good)

Because nobody replied I can now confirm that the Modi works with Linux (Ubuntu 13.10) by just plugging and selecting it as output source.

Thanks for the info. Good to know these DAWs would be enough.

I ordered the Modi now (+ Crack as amp), but I may still need an XLR input for microphone. If I get one I'll do a comparison and reply here. But again, if someone has an DAC: ODAC or Modi and DAW: UR22 or 2i2 (or similar) and can compare them and post if a dedicated DAC is worth it, would be nice.

Picked up the Crack from customs office today (payed 60€ :\). Let's see when I will do the soldering part (no hurry, Modi not ordered yet).

Ok, good to know. Customs office is quite expensive (50€ for Crack as I understand it, will see tomorrow), customs frontier is 150€, but because it's over 22€ (price+shipping) I'd still have to pay import sales taxes ((price+shipping costs)*taxes (should be 19%)) for Modi.

Yes to Crack (while I was writing Stan posted before me so..I should have quoted my reply). Me too no Speedball (but independent from this decision, I read that some (minority, only 1-2 posts somewhere) didn't notice an improvement at all, or even rather the opposite with Sp.).(not saying Sp. is...

I mean the Crack. (in response to "What, no Bottlehead Crack love here?")

Sure, will get mine in a few days. Have to collect it from the customs office "Zollamt" first (not delivered straight to my address) :\

I'm in the search for a second different DAC+amp and came across Geek Pulse (the $300 version). Does anyone know if it's going to be any good? On indiegogo it's "last change to back geek pulse" and get it for $300 instead of $500 (igg.me/at/geekpulseaudio2).