Thanks, @PaganDL! And thanks to everyone else as well. I'll go demo the Sony MDR 1AM2 headphones at Bestbuy, and also keep the X2HR on my radar, I hadn't seen those before. As much as comfortability is important, the sound will always be the number one priority.

I could use some guidance. I'm looking for comfortable headphones that produce awesome sound for around $200. They do not need to be portable at all, I'm just going to use them on my computer. No gaming here, all music. I only have a cheap entry level amp/dac (early magni/modi), so the...

And expensive! Ha. But I just noticed the HP-50s now retail for $180?! Dang that's a good value. I paid $300 for them around the first year they were released. Have had them since December 2013 and have used them heavily, still sound great and I somehow managed to keep them in great shape. Does...

Good advice. I've done all that in the past except disabling usb 3.0, I don't think I've tried that yet. Any specific reason that would work? Well, I'll try it anyways. I think it's just a common problem for Modis, though. Don't have to search too far to find lots of other people having the...

It will only get worse, I'm afraid! I literally have to unplug and replug it 1000+ times now to get it to register. What version of windows do you use? I wonder if it's a specific problem to WIndows 7 or x64 systems. I'm considering trying Windows 10 to see if it would work then. I'm broke or I...

bump still driving me nuts (constant USB device not recognized), and I can't fix it no matter what I try. Anyone else had a similar issue? For a while unplugging and and plugging it back in 100+ times would finally get it to work, and then I just would never shut down my computer if I could...

I did not, but a good thing to check! Will the Muse Dac ($20-$30) really be a suitable replacement or is it possible I will notice some shortcomings?

Yeah, if I'm trying to get it detected. It will eventually be detected (after an hour or two), but it's taking longer and longer. Schiit said it's most likely windows drivers being finicky, which I would agree with. Might have to do with Nvidia audio drivers conflicting, which are used for my...

ahh thanks, too kind :)

All good advice! Thank you. It's probably just a driver issue, but driver issues can be near impossible to fix. Certainly frustrating. Now I'm starting to question the necessity of having a DAC at all. I always looked at DACs as a replacement for a Soundcard. My computer on it's own doesn't...

I've had a Modi (v1) for 3 1/2 years and it has a gotten a lot of use! Understandably it's not working great these days. My computer has had a lot of trouble recognizing it, started about 6 months ago and has gotten progressively worse where my computer has to be on for like an hour before it...

Thinking about getting my brother some Sony MDRV6's to replace his old ones that finally broke after many many years of use. Seems like the MDRV6s have been around forever, are they still a good bang for the buck or are there newer headphones around the same price I should look into? Thanks!

Magni puts out a lot of heat, and doesn't take too long to heat up. It always has me worried, I tend to have very long sessions on the computer where the magni can be on for 4-6 hours at once, and it usually pretty hot in my room to begin with. How worried should I be about the heat the magni...

Oh man It wasn't even two pages back, it was once page back. I am ashamed :( - I just wanted to avoid looking through the whole thread for cable talk...but I guess I just had to go back one :P - A good discussion it was, learned a lot from it, thanks!

Does anyone use a non-stock audio cable with their HP50s? I never liked the default one, but I remember someone had trouble getting other audio cables to plug into the headphones correctly, also the manual says not to use 3rd party cables. Had my eye on this cable for a while...