They sound really good in my opinion, especially for their price. They sound very detailed and linear, yet quite pleasing. But they are pure sound quality without compromise, because everything else is somewhat mediocre or cheap with weak ergonomics. I would choose them over my old Bose IE2's...

I have 2x1 TB hard drives plus 1 240 GB SSD in use right now -  first 1 TB HDD flows over, the second is about half way full. I store all my CD's as a FLAC rip, plus plenty of mp3s (nothing under 256kbps), about 250 GB on the first HDD is kept occupied by my music libary, the rest of it being...

In my case, it wasn't the sound chips itself, it was the front jack audio cable most of the times, acting as an electromagnetical antenna. It rendered the front jack useless because of extreme hissing when the computer itself was under any load. A computer case is a electrical "noisy"...

  I believe that the chips themselves, especially the DAC chip, can be counted out of the equation of good audio quality, especially at the requested audio gear priece point. The only exceptions from this would be the beforementioned electrical interferences that occour on a motherboard chip...

Nope, I'm not getting a VPN, as I'm not watching the "top 1000 music videos" anyway :D If I stumble across a video I couln't watch, I use youtube un-blockers. Period. But I apprechiate the advertisement. I had no idea that SME had rights on Emerson Lake and Palmer thought.

The mainboard he has is one of the newer models, right? I'm askging because newer gaming-grade mainboards have good, isolated sound componments on them, they should really be enough for him to drive his DT 770s. The greatest problem for him could be hiss and distortion coming from non-isolated...

  Youtube says: "Dieses Video ist in Deutschland leider nicht verfügbar, da es Musik von SME enthalten könnte, über deren Verwendung wir uns mit der GEMA bisher nicht einigen konnten" Here in germany, you can't watch many YT videos because of copyright issues :( But Brain Salad Surgery is...

Maybe the problem here is the definition "prog". Maybe, you could name Düün II "prog Kraut rock" and Kraftwerk or Cluster and so on "electronic Kraut rock" - after all, musical genres often intermingle with each other. But Kraut defenitely isn't a subgenre of prog rock, but they had many artist...

    It's not a subset per se: it includes artist you wouln't associate with prog rock anymore, for example Kraftwerk and other fathers of electronic music. It meant all artist coming from germany historically. If you want to have a look at Kraut artist with more of a progressive rock...