My pair of headphones for the last 7 years have been the Shure SRH840s, known for their neutrality. I like them a lot, but the durability on them is garbage (looking for preferably metal connections on the cups). I could accept a bit more bass. bonus points for cyber monday deals I almost got...

This used to belong to my dad. I'm wondering if I'd be able to connect it to my computers to play some large floor speakers or headphones through, or if it could be connected to my sound card with an amp (sound blaster z). I don't actually know what it is and have no way of directly sending...

I'm not sure how cables work when you want to use both an amp and a soundcard (can someone clear that up?)   I have SRH840s and I'm looking to upgrade from my basic Creative soundcard I'm looking at the Xonar DX soundcard, but I'm not sure about an amp I probably don't want to spend more...