If you want more or less decent AMP and DAC for you headphones for under $100 or ever $80 you have quite few choices. Your options probably are SMSL SD793-II, SMSL M2 and Fiio E10k. Maybe few more. They are mostly the same. So somehow I ended up buying E10k, positioned as an upgrade for its quite successful predecessor E10. It came to me in order to replace Creative SoundBlaster E1.   Sound   Just like the competion Fiio's E10k sounds not bad for it's price point. Company's migration toward Texas Instruments hardware did it's job. I never heard...

Let me put it straight. before buying these I have never heard any decent headphones. What I wanted was neutral sound (because you never know how much they will color your music) and some changeable parts (because you never know how long they will last). I also appreciated bass adjustment since many people are usually complaining about lack of bass on analytically-sounded phones. Oh, and yes, I didn't want to sell my computer to buy them, you know. So I found Beyerdynamic Custom Studio.   Sound   I listen mainly to black, experimental metal and...