Hello All, I finally got my hands on some Westone W40's, and I'm enjoying them. These are hardly an obscure set of 'phones, but here's a link anyway. My usage of these is consists of plugging them into a (desktop) computer sitting on the floor under my desk, and with me standing at my desk...

Sure they do- if it's a card and it produces sound, you've got yourself a sound card, which includes your motherboard/card which has its (onboard) DAC and AMP. I think this question is less about whether sound cards exist- spoiler: they do exist- but whether anyone would bother buying one...

At risk of being a jerk- huh?! What year is this?! You almost can't buy a notebook computer these days without getting a SSD and if you opt for one with a HDD, you'll get a lot more storage for your dollar but who uses a notebook as a storage repository, anyway? That's what the cloud is for, or...

Not gonna be able to make this one. Next time!

CHOICE OF DAY Either Saturday or Sunday will work. I have no    GEAR I'M BRINGING I'm poor, gear-deprived and have only my HD 25-1 ii's and SR 225's to offer.

I'd like to attend. :)   I went to the meet this summer and it was worth the trip. :)   Sorry, I don't have space we can use. :(   I'm located in San Jose but can meet anywhere in the Bay Area with advance notice. :)   -Bryan

So glad I went!   This year was my first meet attendance as last year it just..... didn't really occur to me to attend. Not sure why.   This year I got to the meet late but there was still a lot to see and hear.   For the first time, I got to try out some electrostats which was cool...

But that also have: Good treble and bad extension Highly detailed Price? <$500 Why? I love my etymotics buy I "need" something to compliment them. Have tried some $50ish earphones from the local brick and mortars with uneuphoric results. Please help a distressed head fi'er.....

    Perfect!         OK, OK.   I screwed up.   I thought it was Friday.   Would've been nice if it was.

Also, what is the day and date of this thing?????   Saturday, July 18 2015 doesn't exist.

I just now learned of this and am contemplating attending.   The problem is my gear- the only stuff I could really share would be my Grado SR225's and my Sennheiser HD 25-1 ii's, both which are not the most unique gear.   Would anyone even want to listen to either?   -S

  I will be using them with my HT Omega eClaro sound card which I understand has a solid state amplifier Denon TX-NR509 stereo receiver which is.... a mystery box because I don't know what its headphone-out resources are, but it powers my rather power-hungry Grado SR 225i's well enough  ...

I just listened to the 650s at my local Best Buy.   I listened to some heavy metal out of my Nexus 5 smartphone and was surprised by a couple of things: I got pretty good volume and soundstage I got lots of bass   This left me wondering: how much more bass am I gonna get out of these...