well, not sure what's happening to yours, I throw mine around a bit and not a single chip so far, I don't have a headphone stand or anything, they just get dumped in the same spot the amp is... no padding or anything, maybe it's just a matter of time :)

Nah not that, I cannot imagine what they were doing with their HD800 to chip them! mine seem very resilliant, my cosmetic things are:   the foil grill that goes around the outsides is not sturdy and if I put a finger on it by accident when lifting the phones off my head it bends I hate the...

well, around a month on I figured that I'd post I'm very happy with my WA2 Fireflies and HD800 combo :)    only one comment really     the spot on the volume knob that goes around illuminated, this'd be great in the dark

I wanted to come back on here what would probably now be a month after I bought my HD800/WA Firefly combo and I'm now really appreciating it, I'm now actually noticing the larger audio spectrum over the old HD590's that I preferred previously :)   very happy!   about the only things I'm...

Cool, no need to buy them then :)

ok   More or less Bass?

Orrite, lets talk about the upgraded tubes, anyone running them yet? what's the difference in sound?

I ended up using something called "foo_out_asio" which has been flawless?

ok replacing the USB cable seems to have resolved all the crackily issues! I have also installed ASIO with Foobar but I cannot really tell the difference :| 

Awesome thanks for your help!   I've tried ASIO4ALL but it just randomly stops working in the middle of songs!   I think I've assertained that part of my issue is a faulty usb cable, so much as bumping it causes the C-Media to drop out :(

maybe I should point out that at it's loudest the amp does distort the headphones :) we're going to have to disagree with the whole setting volume level thing, since I think I'm right that everything you do in your system simply tells the C-Media how much to amplify the outbound signals since...

How is the system volume the culprit? it's Digital, the system just tells the DAC how loud to play, the system does not increase the volume of what is sent to the DAC, the reason I get distortion from audio players is that they send a clipped signal to the amplifier past a certain point when I...

Gain is on maximum (the high impedance setting, Hi-z) not sure if the settings are wrong or maybe something else, are there any other settings? I have been using winamp and VLC with their gains up as high as they go without inducing their own distortion, maybe I just like it loud!   with the...

mine arrived today...   love the black love the glass love the glowing tubes   do not love how it only just goes loud enough, what am I going to do when I go deaf/quiet tracks? do not love how the C-Media USB chip is pesky, when it occasionally goes crackily and needs the unit...

Paypal Refund finally came back and ordered the WA7 to go with the HD800's :) can't wait!   will be interesting to see how the WA7 goes compared to my ****ty laptop built in audio setup