I already have a 8GB zune and wanted to try out some new headphones, since I listen mostly to death metal (can't get enough of that new gorod album) I bought some sr60i. I know they are easily driven but I would like to try squeezing the most out of them, is there any decent portable dac/amp...

I listen moslty to death metal with my zune and right now I have some AKG k26p wich have a bit too much bass for my taste. I read about grados and metal, but I would like something as much possible the same size of my current k26p, unless theres some small grados model? thx.

When I'm listening to some mp3s or flacs files with foobar and wasapi everything from my claro halo control panel works (equalizer, effects etc) but when I'm listening to some lossless 24/96 wave files (NIN), sounds effect and equalizer dont work. Does this mean wasapi is somehow not working...

So, if you can choose between 44.1 and all the way up to 192 and you are listening to some cds audio files with a sample rate of 44.1, would it be optimal to choose the same one as the source? or the higher the better.

Last month I bought these cans as a well as a new soundcard (claro halo) I downloaded the free NIN ablum the slip in both lossless uncompressed wave and 192kbps mp3, the problem is, shouldnt I head I difference between both? Yes I am a newb to all this stuff, I bought this for gaming, took...

at least thats what I think. Recently I wanted to please myself and try something new, decent headphones and soundcard. I always used onboard sound before and my headphones were the AKG k26p. After some searching I bought the beyerdynamic DT150 with the HT omega claro halo. my problem is, I...