With your budget of 400,- why not upgrade the headphone and a dac/amp? Spend 300 on a good headphone and 100 on dac/amp combo. Should work out nice.   For recommendations on wich headphone and dac/amp you should give some more preferences (over ear, on ear, in ear, etc).

Tried a bunch but Foobar2000 is the best for me. Not sure if played on default it's much different than the others, but with a lot of custumization options (wich made my own) et cetera, it's just a very good player. But it will be a large matter of taste I think.

Thanks everyone. Answer is clear for me.

Thank you for reply.   The Moonprice speakers look good, but seems like they are harder to get in Europe. Prefer to order from some certain websites.

Thanks for reply. I had two different speakersets already selected; I prefered passive speakers so that is my first choice but don't know if they would work with the Fostex amp, so looked also for a set of active as backup plan: - Teufel Ultima 20 MK2 (passive), being € 149,- in discount (not...

I use a Fostex HP-A3 amp/dac for my headphones and it works good.   But I want to connect some speakers to the HP-A3 at the same time (since it has the button to switch between source). Have not yet choose a pair of speakers, since I'm a idiot when it comes to these things; I don't know how to...

​Thank you. This solved my problem!

​I kind of "plug&play" the two divices and know nothing about their drivers (or how to change anything with them). Is it wise to mess around with the drivers for someone like me?

Direct via motherboard cq soundcard I have not tried yet, but when I try the old FiiO, the problem is not there. That's why I think it must by something typical for the Fostex. The difference I found between both so far is in samplespeed (is that the right translation?); FiiO has 48,0 kHz while...

I always used a FiiO E10 on my pc for my headphones (Beyerdynamics DT770 and DT990). Now I replaced the FiiO for a Fostex HP-A3.   The Fostex works great in every aspect and with every program I run on my pc, except for one particular game (Arma 3). And even with this game the sound is good in...

I think in that price range you can't go wrong. It's all quality, but then it comes to what kind of sound/headphone do you like personaly. Me, I like the Beyerdynamic's; they are comfortable and have some bass. The T70 or T90 (depending if you want closed or open; both carry good bass but 70...

​You starting with that budget? Or do you already have some headphones and therefor some references cq preferences?

​There are many choices in that budget and is just what  you want. Portable or not? Good looking or not? Combi or not? Many in-out or not? Etc.   One on the top of your budget and wich comes highly recommended is the Aune X1. Bottem of your budget could be the Schiit Fulla like mentioned...

​Listen to all kinds of music, but think about jazz, classic, blues and rock (in that order).

Hello,   I'm thinking about getting me some open over-ear headphones with a price max of € 200,-. Wich one would you guys recommend?   Thanks.

​I did the same and went back to my old Sansa Clip, except that I was lucky enough to return the X1.

​But on the long run they will get hurt like this by image damage. I will think twice before bying a FiiO product again overal, even though I own a fine working FiiO DAC. Just not the kind of company I want to buy products from if their main concern is short term profit and don't care about...

​You're quite right if you ask me.

Have to say I bought one and I am very dissapointed by it.   Not so much on the sound, but the working of the device. It took 20 seconds to skip a song when pushed the skip button. Then there's the background which should show you the album cover of the record playing. In my case it seemed to...

Just bought the FiiO X1 2e gen musicplayer. Or there is something wrong with my device, or FiiO did a terrible job: when I puch on the skip button, it seriously takes 20 seconds before responding. I mean like what's wrong with the thing.   Another issue; I use a 32GB card with a lot of songs...

​First, I'm not a expert in this and will only give you my personal experience/opinion.   Used to play vinyl on solid equipment and liked it a lot. But then I found out about the quality you can get through digital with also the right equipment. If you ask me wich one is better, I really can...

Not sure about that HiFiMeDIY, but always liked the E12 from FiiO.

Hi fellow Head-Fi 'ers,   I'm thinking of buying a portable amp / dac, but can't see the forest trough the trees again like we say over here. What would be a good choice?   That I look for good quality goes without saying. Besides that I don't want to spend to much on it. Think of € 100,-...