Quote: I've actually considered the K702s over the HFi-780s, and find that it's pretty easy to upgrade the cable; I figure that I can actually get a decent mic mod for it. Now I have another question; do you need a good sound card and a DAC//mixamp, or would I only need one of the...

Quote: So beyond durability is there any other bonus to these cables; say I got the k702, would a better cable increase quality very much?

Quote:    Thank you, this helped a lot. Do you think you can help my in terms of cables?

  Quote: I had not looked at the card, as soon as I saw that the headphones themselves had 6-speakers it became skeptical; In gaming I've heard some pretty bad feed-back from players who've gotten multi-speaker phones, with the same response that cramming isn't good directionally.  ...

Thanks, the site helped considerably; but I have a question on the cards you recommended; do I really need a $200 soundcard or would a $100 suit me just fine? and do certain cards work better with certain head-phones, or is the quality of the card universal through-out them and the headphones...

Soon to be building a PC for gaming and I need some help in the audio section of the project. I've done quite a considerable amount of research for quality head-phones, for my needs at an affordable price, and I've come up with the Ultrasone HFI-780's. I pretty much have a mind-set for these...