looking for headphone and DAC to go with for gaming ( Games like The Witcher 3 to PES2k18 and other like Diablo 3 ) and with good sound for music. Budget is around 350€ ( I live in France ). I also want to connect my 2.1 Bose Companion 50 to it.
For the headphones I hesitate between Senn HD599 (159€) / AKG K702 (150€) / Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro (138€)
And for the DAC I don't know which one fit good with my future headphone and 2.1. ( I found SMSL AD18 but did i miss other product ? )
Thank you huyz and sorry for my imperfect English i'm a French baguette :x ( Si des FR lisent ça et veulent bien me filer un coup de main ça serait très sympa, merci). Have a good day.
Well, if your computer gives out analog sound you already have DAC in there...
With own experience of mechanical design of HD59x would suggest staying away from them, especially when there's mechanically lot better designed headphones for cheaper price.
As apparently HD599 moves away from neutral bass of HD595/8 it would be in competitive sense (picking up foot step sounds and such) farther from level of AKG K702.
While in fun sound direction DT990 again offers very fan bass impact with still good soundstage and details... In design made to last.
Can well believe people having decades old DT990s in use...
That design is from time when product durability was more like thing of honour to designers, unlike in modern quarterly capitalism.
Would pretty much say choise between K702 and DT990 coming to:
Do you want closer to neutral bass for easiest distinguishing of foot steps and such sounds at the expense of less fun?
Or good impact bass for fun immersion with some compromise in competitiveness?
http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=2621&graphID[]=2141&scale=30
Though for music you might want to give DT990 some minus in equalizer's 8 kHz band.
Unless you're used to treble which isn't rolled off.
Speaking of that what headphones you have currently?
That technically Digital-to-Analog Converter term has become fashion marketing name for selling less features as more.
While PES2k18 no doubt lacks benefit from more than stereo sound, Witcher and such games would have better immersion with binaural sound.
And that's where those fashion DACs have nothing.
Especially with good open headphones with big soundstage difference between stereo and binaural sound is big...
Basically like comparing "in left ear-in center of head-in right ear" sound to actually being in that environment listening sounds coming from all directions and different distances.
While with bad headphones binaural sound loses its immersion.
(so naturally most gaming branded headphones are bad Chinese garbage...)
Looking how you're also going to use both speakers and headphones, it would be good to have something which gives convenient switching between binaural-sound for headphones and speakers with different settings.
For Sound Blaster Z-serie there's SBZ Switcher which can be used to automate switching settings to hotkey.
In others there likely isn't equally easy way.
Or do you have laptop and need external sound card?
And don't worry, your English is very good.
Seen lot worser by people from supposedly English speaking countries.
