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Oh, your poor ears.
Actually I just realised that I can still hear my Z-5500's as loud and as bassy as I used to hear them, so the only option it's left is that XB500's didn't stand up to that high volume listening. Well that is a big relief
I don't wanna lose my most important sense O.o
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Smuul> Do you have an onboard Realtek chip on your motherboard? If so try it out on that and no amp or anything and EQ and other plausible enhancements disabled and tell me what kind of volume setting you find "normal"/giving you the pleasurement you're looking for.
My mobo has an Realtek HD ALC889A chip. I'm normally using my Audigy 2 ZS but this is for comparision's sake.
I do have it, but it makes so terrible sound. This one really crackles and is hard to use with headphones. I usually turned the volume up till I got into the middle of the word "Volume" on the Z5500 screen lol. But now I have to turn it even more up because I installed Windows 7 on my computer, this makes quite a lot lower sound. I guess it is because of the lack of support of the motherboard, quite crappy one. I noticed the lower sounding with my mobilephone. Usually it had lot of bass and overall sounding was very loud, but now it sounds about 15% quieter and almost half of the bass has gone somewhere. It is quite the same loud as it was after buying, while attached to my computer, but about 30% of the bass is gone too.
Still I would have wanted about 2 times more bass than they had when I bought them :/ In ideal it could be 5 times more bassy, but that's not possible from headphones, atleast I haven't heard any which could make such sound.
I think I should buy XB700's too, because I like sometimes to listen some more muddy and lower bass too
Maybe those will stay longer alive. Also still I have this question, can it handle more power than XB500's? I just need something which has lots of bass and plays real loud. I'm not so big fan of the mids and the highs, as I also realised with XB500's. I'm a very big critic of bass, I know that I can't ever find the best headphones for me, but I try to find the most bassy headphones. I also still can hear very big difference between some headphones by their highs and mids. I like the wow effect, like in theatre or at a concert, which XB500's don't have, but I also have put aside them and tried to find some headphones with very loud and low bass.