Oh, interesting, for reference I've got an asrock z77 extreme4 motherboard. If the onboard soundcard can power headphones wouldn't it theoretically be a DAC and an amp? A DAC on its own cannot increase the volume but perhaps I'm missing something. Would it become lineout connected to the...

Hi, I'm very broke at the moment and have had owned a pair of AKG702's for two years without amplification. I have very little dignity left and bow my head in shame.   I was thinking of making the O2 amp and connecting it with the normal 'speaker out' from my computer but I don't know if...

Ahhh Wulvy thats what i've been waiting to hear! Once I save enough I'm gonna try get the LCD-2 and pair it with the NFB-10WM. I'll report back in a couple of years :P

Now that audio-gd fixed the jitter in the 192khz version, is there much of a difference between the 96khz and 192khz versions?

Is there a chance my mobo would reclock the signal? I think I might go with my combo, and change the source/cables later. Its bound to be an improvement over the xonar>k702's :)

Thanks for your help. I feel like an idiot for asking but what do you mean by single-ended and balanced headphones? I'm thinking of leaning towards the NBF-2 and C-2 combination now with the 92khz version for low jitter, do you think DIR9001 receiver would nullify the gains of getting a usb...

Hi, I'm also thinking of getting the dac19+c-2 combo with my K702s (currently using flac>xonar STX>k702's), what kind of difference in audio quality would it be? I'm just hesitant to buy $1k worth of gear. I'm unsure as to get either the DF+hiface, or DSP with SPIDF out from the motherboard...

Hi, I have an STX with no mod's powering the K702's. I really need better amplification for these phones, and was wondering if it would be a good setup to have the STX (with line out/rca) to a headphone amp. Or would I just be amping a crap audio feed? I was also going to maybe upgrade the...

Thanks for the help cravenz. Kunal, nice review just what i was looking for. I'm seriously considering this combo now, not a casual listener so detail is important to me. Just to double check, ACSS works with the DAC 19 > C-2 right? I could only find ACSS in the description of the dac and other...

Thanks for the help cravenz, aas reading slim.a's review before, it sounds like a very good combo. People talk of synergy and I want it. Kunal, nice review. Just what I was looking for. I'm not really a casual music listener, I like to lay down and concentrate on the music, I like the finer...

Hey i noticed you have the audio-gd DAC 19 and audio-gd C-2 as well as the K701's. Whats that combination like, and what kind of music do you find it works best with?

Noob mistake, but for me spending close to $2000 is high end :P

Ahh this sucks. I planned on doing one year with the army and making enough cash to buy a high end setup, like a dacmagic>WA6SE but I got denied :( Whats the Yulong DAH1 like for these headphones, I'm thinking of selling my STX and going S/PDIF out (from motherboard) > DAH1

I feel like when I use dolby headphone that it sounds to unnatural, like the movie is being played in the sewers. Without it dvd's sound better to me, but wondering what happens, for example, to the 5.1 PCM audio track off the blu-ray 2001: A Space Odyssey. If your PC is set to output using...

Hi, I've got a decent pair of headphones hooked up to an STX sound card and was wondering how the headphones play surround sound even though they only have 2CH's of output.   Is the 5.1CH audio downmixed into 2 channels and outputted that way? If so, does it sound for example like...

I bought the K702's a few months ago with an Xonar STX sound card, my first pair of audiophile headphones. They took so long to burn in though, at first I thought I was being swindled! After 100+ hours they sounded way better, it felt weird how much the sound changed. I really love these...