So what youre saying is I could invest in higher quality headphones and skip $200-300 worth of DACs and amps? Sounds nice!

My motherboard carries a Realtek ALC898 so I'm assuming that's even better than the one discussed on tom's hardware. I do believe the sennheisers provide 1/4" to 3.5mm cords so if that's really the case then that would be cool.

I guess the best option would be to just get an expensive pair and then get a DAC/AMP if I want to pursue the issue further.

So I guess I should ask the question of headphones then. Are the HD650's great enough to warrant a $110 price difference? I have heard nothing of the Audiotechnica ATH-AD2000X's, but it seems that it's another headphone that will cost me a good $70 for shipping because canada.

Do you think it's worth investing $110 more in the 650's rather than the 600's? And because Canada is a 3rd world country I can't get the X2's without paying crazy international fees so I'm just going to write that badboy off.

Probably gunna end up with magni2+modi2

Something with great attack. Most of the music I listen to has a lot of low/mids. Obviously want every note to be defined, but I definitely have a preference on the low end.

Doing more reading I now realize the HD598's are probably not the best option for me.

most of the artists I listen to I'm able to get .FLAC's from. I'm just not able to fully appreciate them with poor audio quality

Saved up some money recently and was thinking about graduating from a shitty headset + no sound card.

I admittedly don't know much about headphones, amps, or sound cards even though I come from a musical family. I just enjoy the very high quality audio I get to hear in studios, but have never looked into the hardware of it. Really hate listening to music on my PC though.

So I was wondering if there are some audiophiles out there that could help me in setting up high end audio for my PC. Interested in both music and gaming of course. Not interested in speakers.

I don't really have a budget, but maybe over $600 for a headphone/sound card combo is starting to get a little high.

A pair of Sennheiser HD598's just went on sale on newegg (Canada) today for $230 down from $380 (even though I heard these headphones are supposed to be between $200-300) so that would be nice.

EDIT: resolved. got a pair of sennheiser hd650's. still undecided on dac/amp, but am looking for deals on schiit magni/modi stacks or o2+odac. If I don't find a good deal I'll invest in a bottlehead crack and use my uni's robotics lab for sodering and such.

EDIT2: received hd650's. they are everything i expected but do crackle a bit in low/high ends. got an o2+odac cheap off canuckaudiomarket (thanks to x3) which should remedy that. still may do a bottlehead crack project in the future
that's $600 CAD for headphones + $255 CAD for o2+odac ($125 cheaper than new) = $855 CAD total = $660 US. will update when i receive o2+odac

where were you during quickfix !!!!!

btump

will ring too!

made my money back on the 2nd week.

it's really worth it imo

i drive golf carts very fast at the airport

careful mustard, wouldnt want to lose the sponsor that doesnt pay for you !

probably be better to just increase the time in between shots so they can't rattle off so many. Could give them a damage increase so meatshots do like 112 but scatter shoots as fast as the rl.

either way probably shouldnt nerf stock weapons in the first place. demo used to be a nice deterrent for scouts until they started fucking with a stock weapon

schocky rocks my schocksies!

Retards

this guy seems like lpkane's little brother

kinda seems like you guys shouldve made everything public at the time of instead of just all lashing out right now. iunno the situation that well but it sounds like you just let him roll over you then staged a mini rebellion

there you go now u can ignore people in 2 languages