Hi . I'm thinking about buying a new PC and i also have a new HP pavilion dv6 . And i have a JDSLabs C421 and a Sennheiser HD25-1 II and i may add some speakers and stuff to them (i might even buy another headphone for indoors) and i'm buying a new external sound card for both my laptop and...

Ok, so the Ultrasone pro 900 is a very good pair of phones. And the just released ODAC cost $145 and is said to compare with $1k dacs. Legit!!!!, and then the O2, is basically the amp made for the ODAC. You can get the O2 and ODAC for $300. Is this probably the best sound you can get under...

Hey everyone. Maybe this will come off well to some of you but I am going to be giving up my Beats Studios after 3 years of use. I recently posted a complaint about bass distortion which ended up just being some dust interference but in the end, after much research, I want to upgrade. I've...

in a pinch for time and cant find the welcome thread so ill just post in here i guess? mod can move in necessary..     ive been seraching for some time now around this and other fourms for something superior to ultrasone pro900 for my listneing needs. was concidering sennhiesers hd650...

Hey guys. I recently purchased an O2 for my HD 650s and I was wondering if anyone here has heard both the O2 + ODAC as well as the Tube Magic D1 with these pair of cans. I'm just kinda curious to know what difference in sound I will hear between the two DAC/AMP's.    James

Ok, so right now I have some plain Ultrasone HFI 780's, with a Fiio e17 for my portable setup. I am looking for a setup at home. I will be using Foobar with FLAC Audio Files. I need a setup with a dac amp and headphones. I listen to electroci, DnB, trance, dubstep, you get the idea.

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Hello. I'm new to this forum and whole world of audio devices, but recently I decided to purchase my first DAC+AMP combo. Right now I have in mind ODAC+O2 and Yulong D100mkII, I heard good things about both of them, but I don’t trust USB that much, so I’m a little bit hesitant to buy ODAC+O2...

So I'll be getting  Bellari HA540 soon and a new DAC seems like a good idea to get with it. I'm looking at the HRT Music Streamer II, the DAC Destroyer, ODAC and the Nuforce UDac. Which one would be the best? Source is the usb port of a laptop with mostly 320 kbps and flac music. Phones are...

Hi, I'm looking to buy a high quality USB DAC/AMP (under $250) for both my Sennheiser HD 598 headphones and Pioneer SP-BS41-LR bookshelf speakers. Main use being for listening to lossless music. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: I've made my decision and purchased headphones, I'm just leaving this around for people who may be in the same situation as me.   I've been going back and forth between a lot of my options for literally hours a day everyday for the past few weeks, unable to find precisely what I'm...

Hi all, Just upgraded from my HD 555's to some HD 650's and for the most part they are hooked to my Onkyo 806 reciever but on occasion I do hook them to a portable device (ipod, laptop, my cell phone) so i wanted to pick up a portable amp for those times. If i could get something good for my...

Hi all. After looking around for a while, I've decided to go with HD 598s for my first high-end headphones. I can't decide what to use to power them though. I will be using my desktop for all listening with these, so I figures a sound card would be best. The Asus Xonar STX in particular. The...

I've been getting some help in the official HE-400 thread, but more opinions are always good.  I have a new pair of HE-400s that I'm using with my LD MK1+ and HM-601 right now, but I and willing to spend $400 total on both an amp and DAC.  So far I've been recommended the LD 1+ as an amp but...

Can anyone suggest a decent DAC for the Burson amp please? I am thinking about getting a burson amp, not sure if i should go for the 160DS, or to get a DAC + HA-160.   Many thanks 

The thread title explains it all.  Any people willing to post their verdicts through A/B testing or any impressions?

I'm looking to buy an Amp/DAC to drive my HD-25's.  I have had an E7 for a few months and was saving up to buy an E9 to hep drive it, when all of a sudden, The DAC component of the E7 broke, and despite countless attempts just can't seem to get it working.  So at this point, I'm ruling out the...

Dear Head-Fi'ers,   A few days back, I purchased the Sennheiser HD 598. After reading tons of reviews on it, I thought this would be the perfect start for a budding audiophile on a student budget. The knowledge present here is amazing, and I have read quite a bit how a DAC/amp would...

I have bought the Sennheiser HD598 and I'm using it combined with the integrated sound card on my motherboard. I want to buy an external soundcard or DAC since I'm already using all of my PCI/PCI-E slots. The furthest I am willing to go is around 100USD unless there is some significantly better...

As I was searching for a good amp/ dac, I decided to save myself the trouble of picking between numerous options and get an O2 amp/ dac.    Now I have to choose between JDS Lab variant and the EHP variant. I can only see the rear view of the former...

Hi all,   I've been using the search function for a while, and couldn't find a specific answer.   I've developed the need for a cheap line-level dac to work in conjunction with my JDS C421 amp. I mostly just use my iphone with 320kb/s track > LOD > C421   I've been wanting to give...

I own and enjoy the DACport but recently bought phones with a dedicated amp (Stax), so am thinking about getting an LX, seing as it's purported to sound better. But when I spoke to David at Centrance, he mentioned that the LX is basically a Dacport with the potentiometer gone and the volume...

From my time on the forums on head-fi, I keep hearing DACs being referred to as either sounding cold and analytical, giving good detail in the music; or warmer and more musical sounding.   It seems as for DACs under the $500, often you have to choose one at the expense of the other (atleast...

Hey everyone,   So I recently got a Denon D5000 and I'm looking to upgrade my DAC from the FiiO E7 that I currently have. I am trying to decide if it is worth upgrading to something else that is up to $150. Ideally it will be closer to $120, but I can stretch up to $150 if necessary. I don't...

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