Gorebag
New Head-Fier
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Hello there,
I'm wondering whether I should buy an amp to boost the bass of my current headphones, or spend $450 on a new pair of headphones that are built for bass in the first place and get an amp for those. $450 is the most I can spend in total, including an amp (and potentially a dac, as I will get into later).
I've got some Audio Technica ATH-A700's. I use them only with my PC, for gaming and music listening (trance, house). They're plugged into the headphone jack on my Bose Companion 20 desktop speakers, if that means anything.
If new headphones would make a big difference with an amp, over my current ones with an amp, I need the new ones to be comfortable enough to wear for several hours.
The ones I've got now I can wear forever, mostly because they don't rest on the top of my head. I love the wing gate design for that. I've never had a problem with heat in my ears, so when I say comfortable, I really only mean comfortable to the top of my head. Also, I've got big ears, so lots of space inside the cans themselves is definitely a plus.
The amps I've been looking at so far are the Digizoid ZO2, Fiio E07, E10, E11, E17.
Right now I get popping/cracking coming through the headphone jack, but I'm getting a new motherboard soon, which might not have that problem.
Right now I can't say I need a combined amp/dac because I don't know if the new mobo will have clean sound coming out, but if it happens to have pops in the sound as well, a dac would have to be included in the $450, which means a dac/amp combo would probably be preferred, unless there's a big gap in bass between something like the ZO2 and any of the Fiio dac/amp combos.
I'm new to all this, so there are lots of things I still don't understand like Vrms, Ohms, and so on. I'm really looking more for product suggestions than technical discussion
Hope you can help a bass hungry newbie out. Thanks.
I'm wondering whether I should buy an amp to boost the bass of my current headphones, or spend $450 on a new pair of headphones that are built for bass in the first place and get an amp for those. $450 is the most I can spend in total, including an amp (and potentially a dac, as I will get into later).
I've got some Audio Technica ATH-A700's. I use them only with my PC, for gaming and music listening (trance, house). They're plugged into the headphone jack on my Bose Companion 20 desktop speakers, if that means anything.
If new headphones would make a big difference with an amp, over my current ones with an amp, I need the new ones to be comfortable enough to wear for several hours.
The ones I've got now I can wear forever, mostly because they don't rest on the top of my head. I love the wing gate design for that. I've never had a problem with heat in my ears, so when I say comfortable, I really only mean comfortable to the top of my head. Also, I've got big ears, so lots of space inside the cans themselves is definitely a plus.
The amps I've been looking at so far are the Digizoid ZO2, Fiio E07, E10, E11, E17.
Right now I get popping/cracking coming through the headphone jack, but I'm getting a new motherboard soon, which might not have that problem.
Right now I can't say I need a combined amp/dac because I don't know if the new mobo will have clean sound coming out, but if it happens to have pops in the sound as well, a dac would have to be included in the $450, which means a dac/amp combo would probably be preferred, unless there's a big gap in bass between something like the ZO2 and any of the Fiio dac/amp combos.
I'm new to all this, so there are lots of things I still don't understand like Vrms, Ohms, and so on. I'm really looking more for product suggestions than technical discussion
Hope you can help a bass hungry newbie out. Thanks.