Hello everyone, I just got my HD598's a few days ago. I'm impressed by the soundscape, they are great for gaming. The bass lacks impact but is well defined. I find them pretty boring for most music, but extremely clear. I listen to a lot of trance, so they were pretty underwhelming for me. Keep...

  I don't know, I heard heaps of negative comments about soundcards, apparently they don't make any difference. Although DAC's have been widely recommended.

I just ordered a fiio e07k, will this be enough?

Well, I don't think I said it wasn't 'punchy', but it lucked impact. Actually, I did say it lacked punch, but not in the way you're talking about. You can hear the bass very well, but you can't really 'feel' any impact of it, its fairly light. If you've ever tried out some very bassy headphones...

Thanks, I'm thinking of ordering the e07k today.     I'll try it out. You said 'pumped' through them, so I'm guessing at a higher volume?

Yeah that's what I guessed. The DT880's have great bass from what I've heard. Not really sure of what amps I should be looking at.

Straight into my mobo basically. Budget around 60-120.

I got them the other day, and the bass definitely had no impact. The bass is there, and well defined, but like I said it didn't have any punch, that's probably due to the open design, though I was expecting at least a decent amount of bass. The headphones will probably take a little while to...

Hello, I'm new here, this is my first post, and I know barely anything about soundcards and computer audio. I've had pretty cruddy headphones for a while, never really bothered getting any good audio equipment. So I've had pretty average audio equipment for the entire time I've been using my...