From personal experience with the DT-880, I had a difficult time with pinpointing player movement in FPS games - I specifically purchased them for gaming - without consideration of other's advice about best FPS gaming headphones. And then I made a second mistake of moving on to the HD650 for...

So to get the good soundstage and transparent sound with the m-stage, what do you set the windows speaker config to? 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, or headphone? Also, does anyone have experience with best Creative Control Panel settings for x-fi cards that go well with the m-stage?

I'm not getting sound out of the M-Stage when I running RCA cables into the titan's i/o RCA jacks. Anybody know if i'm missing a step?     ------------- edit --------------- Turns out the titan's I/o drive features RCA Line-in... not line-out.  ><  I'm waiting patiently for my V-DAC...

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Fluff, do they sound "off" with every pair of phones you have? Can we hear more M-Stage "MK2" impressions? It is very new after all, and we have one potentially negative future review for it so far... -----------EDIT------------ Aparently Fluff is the only one so far having any "off"...

Still no word from those testing DT880 / 600ohms with m-stage? :)

Thanks for the insightful reply! I wonder how I will be able to configure it. Hmm. I guess by default it wouldn't do anything at all besides DAC, because the DAC is just a small part of what the x-fi soundcard does?

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Please pardon my naïveté: I have an X-fi Titanium soundcard hooked up to my V-DAC via toslink (optical, spdif). Here are my questions about the consequences of doing that: 1. I am wondering if the sound card's xram and other processes are completely negated or passed on to the V-DAC...

Well, I'm going to post this in a diff forum area, but feel free to answer here!

Perhaps this would be a better post for the DAC forums?

Thanks, this is hopeful! Any word from the DT880 / 600ohmz crowd??

I have an X-fi Titanium sound card and a V-DAC. I pass the sound card's DAC function over to my V-DAC via toslink (optical, spdif). Here are my questions: 1. I am wondering if the sound card's xram and other processes are completely negated or passed on to the V-DAC? 2. I still get 3D...

  Quote: So a very popular $300ish mid-fi standalone DAC that you could get to match your standalone $300ish mid-fi standalone AMP (standalone: because I personally wouldn't pair an amp/dac combo with a standalone one or the other) is the Musical Fidelity V-DAC - it is incredible an...

This is the M-Stage page where you can read fluffdog's impressions of the M-Stage, V-DAC, HD600 combo: http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/475618/matrix-m-stage-amp-review-simple-cheap-and-excellent/495 Thanks Fluffdog

I've wound up with this setup at this point in my journey: X-FI Titanium -- spdif --> Musical Fidelity V-DAC ----> Matrix M-Stage ----> Beyer DT880 / 600ohmz Audio addiction!

Just updating with current information!

Hey did you guys with the M-Stage and Beyer DT880 / 600ohms get a chance to test the combo? Will one of you please report on the little details of...it? ;)

so... 10 years later, how much do you regret your decision to get HD595 instead of the DT880? >:)

Alright! I can't wait to hear about it.  SP Wild mentioned in another post that the HD650 tend to be less "technical" and more about the warm creamy smooth sound, and the best way to hear that smoothness would be through a tube amp.  But I'm wondering if "our combo" would sound at least almost...

Do you guys think a V-DAC and an M-Stage combo would have good synergy with the HD650?

Well, I'm extremely attracted to the HD-650 and HD-800 from the reviews I've heard (not sure if I can afford the HD-800 though), but I see a lot of people contesting for K701s and 2s or all those silly beyers or a40s and a50s and so on and so forth,. There are just so many options.  I am mainly...

I actually ordered the v-dac and m-stage last week (and they haven't arived yet) so I've only heard my HD595 out of a Xonar U1 USB audio interface (a USB soundcard basically) that was plugged into my Macbook Pro. I don't actually know what I want to change in the sound as I haven't heard it...

Hmmm. It would appear that my HD595s just won't cut it? I need ideas for an upgrade then :( I prefer synergy with a v-dac and m-stage combo. Something with a lot of transparency, punchy base (but not over exaggerated), liquidy mids, and silky angelic highs. I listen to all musical genres but I...

I'm asking about how much of a SQ difference there would be between my 2 possible setups.