Davrix
New Head-Fier
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Its 4 am and I feel like my head is about to explode at this point. I thought buying a nice pair of headphones would be just a simple thing… I had no idea the landmine field I was walking into.
I just ordered a pair of Q701’s off amazon, the price was right with gift cards and some extra cash I got from a side job, I was able to snag them for like 80 bucks. They’re going to be here today or tomorrow and the last thing I want to do is plug them in and be disappointed with my purchase, which in the end no one really ever wants.
I thought I had this figured out with the whole AMP and DAC information, been reading so many threads over the past week on these forums it’s made my head spin. I have a very old solid state amp from a floor speaker set up. I figured oh simple, it’s got enough power to drive the speakers it should be fine for the headphones despite being older then well I am. I would just run the amp through my computer using the red white adapter to the small audio jack into the back of my motherboard. Figured I would save myself the money on a newer amp right now and didn’t think I would need a DAC sense I’m running through the analog ports on the PC and not the USB.
I’m sure some of you are laughing at me right now; it never occurred to me that the signal from the PC is still digital and that it runs through the cheap ass on board DAC on the motherboard. I thought I was bypassing that until I did some more reading tonight and realized my mistake.
That being said what’s my best solution to all this? I do not have a lot of extra cash to throw at a pricey AMP DAC combo like the E17 and E9k. I still have the old solid state amp is there a good DAC I can just buy that will take care of my needs? Should I just get the e10 and bypass my old amp as it’s about within my budget right now to fix this problem, being that its 53 dollars right now on amazon.
Any help or advice would be helpful right now as I’m feeling just a little stressed out over this whole thing now, I never thought something as simple as headphones could turn into something so complicated.
I just ordered a pair of Q701’s off amazon, the price was right with gift cards and some extra cash I got from a side job, I was able to snag them for like 80 bucks. They’re going to be here today or tomorrow and the last thing I want to do is plug them in and be disappointed with my purchase, which in the end no one really ever wants.
I thought I had this figured out with the whole AMP and DAC information, been reading so many threads over the past week on these forums it’s made my head spin. I have a very old solid state amp from a floor speaker set up. I figured oh simple, it’s got enough power to drive the speakers it should be fine for the headphones despite being older then well I am. I would just run the amp through my computer using the red white adapter to the small audio jack into the back of my motherboard. Figured I would save myself the money on a newer amp right now and didn’t think I would need a DAC sense I’m running through the analog ports on the PC and not the USB.
I’m sure some of you are laughing at me right now; it never occurred to me that the signal from the PC is still digital and that it runs through the cheap ass on board DAC on the motherboard. I thought I was bypassing that until I did some more reading tonight and realized my mistake.
That being said what’s my best solution to all this? I do not have a lot of extra cash to throw at a pricey AMP DAC combo like the E17 and E9k. I still have the old solid state amp is there a good DAC I can just buy that will take care of my needs? Should I just get the e10 and bypass my old amp as it’s about within my budget right now to fix this problem, being that its 53 dollars right now on amazon.
Any help or advice would be helpful right now as I’m feeling just a little stressed out over this whole thing now, I never thought something as simple as headphones could turn into something so complicated.