my essence STX is blowing after a while with full or above full volume distorted sound, any thoughts?

Audio-technica m50s on this venezuelan rapper video http://youtu.be/8cKvvmPwgP4

So I have another question, sorry if this has been answered before: is there anyway I can use musicbee with asio output and getting sound from any other application through my soundcard too at the same time?

Quote: thank you very much, it sounds a lot louder now but isn't resampling 44.1khz to 48khz bad?   And I'm getting the sound output interrupted when any other sound tries to play on windows (like facebook notification sound) using wasapi on musicbee (If I use ASIO it plays really fast...

So I got my asus xonar essence and I've been using it with my ath-m50, is it normal I have to crank the volume bar above 3/4 and sometimes all the way up so I can listen music at a good (drunk good if you know what I mean) level?   I'm using normal gain, and unified xonar drivers btw, the...

playback speed is faster than normal for me, how do i fix it?

so is anyone using a S3 + E17 right now?

I'm using this with musicbee, an E17 connected via usb and at m50 connected to the fiio, when I check the status on the FiiO ACPL I get this         All my music is at 44.1khz, I selected  24 bits, 44.1khz on the asio settings, why am I getting 48khz output?