Ancient bump, but it's relative, so I hope no one hates me for this?
Anyhow, I finally got the things I mentioned above (there were shipping issues with the XM5, but it was not Practical Devices' fault - the US Postal Service was forwarding my mail to an address I no longer lived at).
All I can say is: yes. J3 + XM5 + DT770 = wonderful. When I lacked an amp, the bass was weak and lacked any sort of dynamism - I mean, I recognize passages that were supposed to have bass as having bass, but I couldn't actually feel it. Not so with the XM5 as part of the set up. I can't really describe the sound, seeing as my audio vocabulary is lacking in definition, but when I listen to a bass-dynamic track (such as "Aura" from the .hack//SIGN OST, or "From the Roof Top ~ Somewhere in the Silence" from the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society OST), I can actually feel a sound-pressure difference between different levels (is that the right term?) of bass (and the difference between bass and treble is worlds apart, like it should be).
-- Griffinhart