Thanks! I'll get one now. Hope you're right lol

Simple question, I have an amp already (fiio E11), I want to buy a DAC for my laptop. Just want confirmation that I understand this correctly, any amp can link to any DAC. So I should be able to connect the Schiit Modi to my laptop via USB, then connect my fiio E11 to the Modi via some sort...

BUMP.  Anyone?  Or am I just out of luck.

There is a guitar center, but they don't have anything as I stated in my post. No Sam Ash music in Michigan.

I want to try headphones before buying.  Recently I bought beyerdynamic dt 990 pro, was expecting them to be good open headphones with bass but they were totally not what I was expecting.   I know you can buy on Amazon, try, and return but I don't want to deal with that hassle.  Plus it...

Okay will take your advice and wait for an amp.     If you have any recommendations let me know.  Not sure if the Fiio E11 was the best choice.  After listening to these the treble seems to be high, so I was thinking maybe the Fiio E07k so I can turn the treble down.  I won't be using the DAC...

Thanks for the info!  I realize the dt990 requires more juice, but I was thinking this has to do with volume?  I'm getting enough volume from my computer out of it.  The distortion i speak of is more like cracking speakers when the bass is too high.  Not sure if "distortion" is the technically...

Thanks a lot for the responses so far.   Well the recording or headphone jack issue I sort of ruled out because my bose qc15 sounds perfectly good coming from the same sources.  I posted the links to the youtube files I was using.  Of course I know they are compressed.   The results are the...

Hello all, i've been reading around the forums a lot.  I'm a newbie to the audio world.  I own bose qc 15s and Philips SHE3590.     After reading around this forum I learned bose are actually supposed to be bad sound quality wise.  After doing a lot of research, I settled on buying the...