Good price on Amazon uk at the moment. I've just ordered a pair at £137.67 inc delivery as an upgrade to my 8 year old HD497s.   I've always been very happy with the 497s and have never been able to find anyone who had compared them with the 598, so I'll be interested to see how big an...

I've been using HD 497's for many years and I've been very happy with them, but I've now got upgradeitus. Has anyone made the step from 497's to 598's or compared them? I'd just like some sort of idea of how much of an upgrade it would be. I'll be using them un-amped with 320cbr mp3's...

tattare - the E10 I got in the UK last week looks like this   http://cdn.apple-gadgets.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/fiio-e10_008-584x328.jpg   The headphone jack is silver and metallic.  

Thanks for your replies Papander & ClieOS.   I've seen a few posts here and elsewhere, where an E10 has not yielded any improvement in SQ over an onboard Realtek card. I've also seen posts claiming night and day results. With such a subjective subject, as ClieOS rightly says, you have to...

Hi everyone Just got my E10 a couple of days ago to go with my Acer 5920 and Senn HD497s. The Acer has a Realtek ALC888 soundcard and I've been fairly happy with it using the 497s. I'm using Winamp in Vista to listen to 320 cbr mp3s.   After reading lots of views on how an external DAC...