It was said that all these 498XX/497XX are defected with bass being suppressed, you may find a more detailed discussion at page around 200, so now I am getting this LME49990: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/190928099571?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649   They are single channel per...

I know I am bumping a really old post, but I didn't find people solving it so I just wanna share with you how I just SOLVED mine.   My computer is a 2-year-old built, with Xonar Essence ST running without a problem from the first day, on Win2012 r2 (a clean install last week) This morning I...

60% works only for some soft songs, "I got rhythm" is one of them. For most of the others 20% suffices and 60% is likely blowing my ears, so I am a bit scared now, maybe avoid wearing it besides listening then. I used to wear all the time even nothing is being played.

Win8 is not an option for me now......a bit weird for me honestly You have my thanks for sharing your result with the possible fix, I will get it installed and hope that it's the true cure

The headphone is of 300ohms, it looks the middle setting (64~300ohms) for gain is enough, but lately I have found that for some songs the 300ohms is not loud enough to hear all the details; instead by setting to the highest gain (300~600ohms) and turning the output to 60% it sounds better...

For low gain I would agree to this ....... but how about the high gain option? It produces really loud sound when I turn up the volume(mostly I set a low volume as it suffices)..........the loud high pitch sound is not in my control and if it delivers its full power, I am not sure.

Really need to know if this bug has been fixed.   I am now using it with my Sennheiser HD600. To leverage the headphone I put it on the headphone jack and used the highest gain(I do find this setting the best in sq)........imagine what will happen if this bug strikes me.......probably I am...

Imho, ASIO output latency setting is useful mainly for those who produces music using computer, say, MIDI composing, in which a zero-delay between hitting the keyboard and output of sound is preferred.