I'm an owner of a Sennheiser HD598, a Xonar DG soundcard and a Yamaha RX-V463 receiver.   My wish is to listen to music through the receiver, but the manual says the headphone jack has 470Ω, while the phones are 50Ω... People said that low impedance headphones plugged into a high impedance...

I just purchased the HD598 and Xonar DG and compared the soundcard with the Yamaha receiver. In case someone is interested, I find that with some songs the Yamaha puts out a kind of bass that's not pleasing to my ears, it's like when my neighbour starts his Ferrari engine; that kind of...

Quote: Thanks for the input. I have some old headphones connected to the front 6.5mm jack of my receiver atm. The sound quality is so-so, but these headphones aren't high quality either.   The receiver doesn't seem to have a lot of options when plugged in with headphones . The program...

Hi,   I'm purchasing a Sennheiser HD598 soon to use on my computer. But I'm unsure if I'll also be getting the Asus Xonar DG soundcard, namely because I own a Yamaha RX-V463 AV Receiver. From some research I've found that the receiver has a Burr-Brown PCM-1680 DAC, is this a better DAC...