Also to note if their is a way for a person to be credited for best answer I'd give it to you. I thank you for being ever so helpful. I've been a little lost with the audiophile stuff. I wanted something more serious headphone wise with my purchase of the Blue Yeti Microphone I got on sale for...

    I gotcha well I was looking at the differences freq and power output and though they looked fairly similar the a40 and the hd558. I just looked it appears the A40's are open so I would imagine it wouldn't be a huge deal having them being open. Would you say as with amp's you would go with...

I'm a little confused with the AMP's that people recommend. I've seen people recommend the FIIO amp I think its called. Would I connect the headphones to the amp and then is their a 3.5mm jack that would connect into my Xonar DX?   I saw the 558's at best buy for under 100 dollars the only...

As the subject line suggests I'm currently looking for a new pair of headphones to fit my situation. Currently I'm using a Astro A40 5.8 wireless setup which comes with the headset and a mixamp that outputs 70mW 32omhs per channel which I'm not quite sure what this means. I currently use my...

Currently I'm using a Astro A40 with a 5.8 wireless mixamp (using a optical cable as a pass through for the mixamp and using DDL Dolby Digital Live) and it works great it really goes however from what I've been reading the mixamp is good but the headphones are just okay. I purchased some months...