TL;DR: No voodoo, just power. Quite large, heavier than I was expecting.   --   It was early at the warehouse, but Jerry liked to get started before the rest of the crew rolled in. He pulled his packing list and retrieved his favorite cart: a yellow-and-black plastic, caster wheeled jobber he'd...

Just got my Mixamp yesterday. I watched an episode of Firefly and ran around in Borderlands for a bit with my Senn HD497.  Cool piece of kit; smooth damping action on the knobs, a click-stop at 50/50 on the mix knob, decent sound so far and plenty of drive for my 497s (32 ohm/112 db).   I...

My challenge to you, Head-Fiers:   I need a set of headphones costing around $200 that will approach the sound of the Beyer DT 880 driven by a WA 3.   Madness?...probably. I suppose a more reasonable way to phrase my dilemma is that I like Beyer detail with the highs rolled off a bit...