I hope this isn't too bad of a thread necro... But I just picked mine up from UPS and anxiously hooked them up. After reading reviews I was sold. Some folks seemed to know a bit about critical listening and had positive opinions...but unfortunately I am not completely impressed. For $50 it's...

Still running my Q701's with a Headroom Total Bithead DAC/amp for over 3 years now and still in bliss. Of course this has kept me at my novice status.  Some day I'm going to get around to building a 'starving student' for them...one day...    Edit: I dug an old Creative Sound Blaster Live...

I have a Headroom Total Bithead with my Q701's (it was my first amp/headphone setup) and just ordered one of the sub-$100 cmoy tube amps off eBay (titled "12AU7 JRC4556 Valve driven cmoy RA-1 headphone amplifier"). I'm going to use the Headroom as a DAC going into the tube amp. I know I will...

Quote: Yeah I've nothing to compare it to as of yet. Except maybe my Sony home theater system, which isn't anything extraordinary either. I just ordered a CMOY tube amp off eBay. I'll probably just use the BH for the DAC into the CMOY for home use. For portable use I guess the BH will...

For batch converting, I recommend Xrecode2. It's pretty much free, (you have to wait for a timer to count down when it starts up and click a number.) it's very versatile, and can multitask if you have multiple cores on your computer (on todays age, I'd imagine you would..) It's far superior and...

I just ordered one of these off ebay to tide me over until I get my electronics bench set up and going. The seller described the improved components in it in detail, and even if it isn't that great, I can just fix it later when I get my oscilloscope and audio oscillator to fine tune it. :P

Personally I've always avoided Fiio products. They seem so cheap and shoddy. I use a Headroom Total Bithead with my Q701's. A great choice for this price range with a DAC.  ...

I rock a Headroom Total Bithead. It's not the best, but the DAC works and it's highly portable. DAC works without using the batteries. Not sure what the impedance of your cans are but it powers my AKG Q701s moderately well. Not amazing though.

Quote: I thought it should work? Just like LODs. As long as you hold down the "Menu" key as you are plugging it in..I could be wrong because I don't own a dock. But I believe I've seen that docks work with the RB build.