Thanks again for the numerous responses i'm checking in to all of your suggestions.   @PurpleAngel   I really learnt a lot from your post! You answered a lot of my questions in your response, this information will no doubt aid me in finding something suitable. :) 

Thanks for the response sree that improves my understanding a little. So from what you're saying then I should invest in a amp/dac, is there anything suitable for my budget that would offer a good improvement or do I need to get saving? :P As with most things I'm sure the more you spend the more...

Shameless self bump here, still sitting here with my wallet out wondering what to do. :P

Dear members of Head-fi.org, I am sorry to do this to you but after trawling through 7-8 pages on the search function I started to get quite bored and confused and now I need your help!   I am a computer guy but I don't know that much about audio, for some reason the information doesn't seem...