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SK123
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Nov 27, 2016
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Please help me out folks!! I have Asus STX II and recently I have placed an order for Audio Technica R70x for $270 CAD - about $305 with taxes. These with the delivery are coming to the same price. The R70x haven't been shipped yet so I can still cancel that order. PLEASE HELP!! Please help me decide if these should be a better buy? The R70x are 470 ohms too, while these are much less. Thanks!!
Nov 27, 2016
DankusMemus
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Nov 27, 2016
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SK123It really depends on what you like, the R70x is a super clear and neutral headphone( maybe a little warm), while the AKG is a little more colored in mids in comparison, and offers a wider soundstage. However, the headphones are pretty similar, and both are fantastic headphones in the price range. Hope that helps. :)
Nov 27, 2016
SK123
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Nov 27, 2016
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SK123thank you so much dude, yeah it makes sense. I was always looking for an audiophile grade headphone but unfortunately all these headphones that come on sale are neutral/studio grade. This is the first time I'm purchasing hifi grade stuff so really ignorant about a lot of things. But thanks for taking the time and helping me understand, I'll see if more ppl wanna share their knowledge too and I'll have to decide quickly than.
do you still think R70x would be a good offer at $200 USD? that's what it cost me in USD about ~$201.
Nov 27, 2016
DankusMemus
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Nov 27, 2016
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SK123Yes. I got mine for 275 bucks. Although it doesn't matter if its a good deal or not if you end up not liking them. Also, be aware of the return policy, or rather, the lack of one. Newegg sells the R70x for $224, and includes a 30 day return policy.
Nov 27, 2016
SK123
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Nov 27, 2016
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DankusMemushmm thanks a lot bro for the suggestions. Im still a bit leaning towards R70x because of the high ohms and my sound card supports up to 600, but other than that 7XX has much better sensitivity at 105db. Im not too sure what it does though, but my sound card offers i think 119 db, so not sure if it matters which headphones got better sensitivity. Also R70x appears to have better freq response too at 5 - 40,000 Hz . But as you said, these headphones will probably sound too plain and not much enhanced unlike 7XX. hmm let's see which one should I go for now. will give one last try with a buddy who's also a lot into electronics, but not necessarily into hifi stuff. But thanks a lot for sharing ur knowledge dude, hope have an awesome evening!!
Nov 27, 2016
DankusMemus
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SK123You too! :)
Nov 27, 2016
lshriver
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Nov 28, 2016
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SK123Why would you WANT more impedance? Also pretty much anything can drive headphones up to 600 ohms because 600 ohms is just resistance. If you drive it with a sound blaster or strix or xonar, it's not gonna sound very good compared to an external dac and amplifier. Anything 300 ohms and up and a soundcard cannot drive it to its full potential. Also high input sensitivity does not make a headphone better. As far as sound quality goes it's not near as important as THD or total harmonic distortion. As long as that is low, even if the sound curve is totally messed up, you can EQ the response to be flat, and then have a very neutral headphone.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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lshriverThanks for making me understand better bro. I didn't know, it just sounded more fancier the higher ohms :p.
At the time of purchasing the souncard I didn't even know I'll need a better headphones LOL. And on top I never even knew about the DAC & amps, otherwise definitely would have gone external amp/dac instead.
I had just thought an expensive sound card will change my world, but its freaking more expenses after another. So in your opinion too 7XX is a better purchase than the R70x at the same price? 7XX would be approx $30 CAD higher with the taxes, but its am insignificant amount when already making an expensive purchase.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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by dark do you mean more deep colorful sound instead of studio quality plain stuff?
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123Getting into the "fancy" terms, a dark headphone means it has more bass than neutral, or so the people think. Most people, if they hear a frequency response that is truly flat from 20 hz to 20khz (meaning the same volume for every frequency) than most people would think it is "bassy" or "too dark" because sound physics makes bass notes sound louder than they actually are. As to "fancy sound card" it will still be loads better than without one. Don't feel bad there, it's just headphones of high quality are "scalable" which means the better the amp and DAC, the better the sound. With lesser quality headphones you will find a point of diminishing returns very quickly, vs ones like these (and better) will find the point of diminishing returns far greater up the price line. So your sound card will be great, you will still be amazed by the sound with the high ohm headphones, but it will be more quiet, and not near it's potential. The AKG's will be louder, also not near it's potential, but with less resistance, it will sound better than the R70x with your sound card.
As to which is a better deal, with a dedicated amp and dac, like the Schiit/magni combo, the R70x will sound better. Once you get into higher end than that combo of amp/dac, then the akg's will sound the best.
So it's up to you. If you keep your sound card the AKG's are a better deal. If you're willing to get the dac/amp then the R70x will be better. (just remember if you get a dac/ amp, plug the dac into the optical out port, so you avoid the built in dac of the sound card and don't mess with the sound the dac creates, and then plug the amp into the dac.) And if you're willing to spend a lot of money on dac/amp (as in 500+) the akg's are better yet again. It's all about what you use.
Sum it up - AKG is better when you either don't spend money at all on amp/dac, (ie, sound card) or you spend a lot of money. R70x is better deal if you are willing to spend between 100 and 400 on an amp. (Fiio makes a good amp/dac on the low end, the schiit magni combo is a great combo for high impedance headphones like the r70x's)
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123also, apologies for the long response. :)
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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lshriverDude, this reply just blew me away!! So detailed and great explanation. THANK YOU so much man truly appreciate ppl spending their valuable time and sharing information & knowledge. Thank you once again. So yeah it appears I will have to cancel the order with R70x and get these instead.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123Also both of these headphones will have a burn in period. So they will sound better after 100 hours of use than they will when new. If you want to speed the process up you can put it in your computer, turn the volume to 75-80% and set them down and let them run for a couple days. You can still listen to them during that period, in fact I recommend it! After 50 hours it will sound much better, 100 hours they should be fully broken in. Just turn on spotify or pandora or something so it runs constantly, and they'll be fully broken in within the week. Since I'm assuming you're gonna stick with your sound card, and not get the amp/dac (yet at least) do not use the optical out port. Use the normal headphone port as all headphones are analog not digital (on and off instead of 1's and 0's) and it will sound much better since it will use the sound card's built in dac. In fact try listening out of both ports, you'll most likely be surprised the difference in sound quality. If you want a budget option, the fiio e17k Alpen 2 is a great option and I think it's under $100. It's pretty small too, and it has a bass boost option if you're interested in that, it also has a mid boost and treble boost although less people are interested in that.
Hope you enjoy them! If you can, watch interstellar with the akg's on. The soundstage makes the movie sound so good (and it's also a great movie in my opinion)
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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lshriverThank you so much once again for your feedback. So yeah I canceled the R70x and went for this one. One of the things which was making me lean toward R70x was that they aren't that huge to cover like half of your face, and I think 7XX are quite large. But of course listening experience is the first choice and not cosmetics, so yeah thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I'm sure I will enjoy these a lot, and in future as my financial situation and budget change, I will sure be upgrading to a better system or yet build a good quality 7.1 home theater system. I personally find the idea of having a $1000 plus budget for casual headphones listening to be a bit ridiculous since its only one person at a time who can enjoy it, so yeah hopefully in near future probably would go for a nice 7.1.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123Headphones and microphones are my area of expertise, but good luck with your speaker system! As a sound engineer I use headphones primarily and work with lots of microphones. The mixing people use speakers to mix and reference them with headphones (like these!) but I usually use headphones because going from place to place I need a consistent sound no matter where I am. Enjoy your headphones!
Edit: In case you were wondering, mixers use headphones to reference because high end headphones will show more subtle details that need to be edited out or fixed than speakers will be able to show. Most of it is done on the speakers, then they check with various headphones, and if needed go back and fix what is needed and reference again until they hear no flaws.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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Nov 28, 2016
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SK123I have the same setup as you. I will say these sound amazing with the high gain setting on the stx2. good all rounder and great for games.
I bought it on the first red drop and havent loooked bacK.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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lshriverStx2 drives high gain Very well. The current faraday cages cover the noise very well.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123I have used one on my friends computer with a pair of HD 600's. I said in a post somewhere in the middle that they are still miles ahead from a standard audio jack in the computer, just a good ways behind the external DAC and amp combo. If you're happy with your setup, great! I didn't mean that they were bad, they are not bad at all! I was just saying that an external would be better. But being that he doesn't want to spend the extra money, they will still be better than the r70x's because most 600 ohm cards can only drive (not with volume, I mean sound quality) up to about 300 ohms. Any more and you need to use the sound card plus at least a firefly Red amp To give it a "boost."
I'm just here to inform! Not trying to sell anything as much as helping people make informed decisions.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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lshriverAwesome info once again!!
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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TheGeeManSo there are basically 4 settings for the gain. IEM for headphones 16-32 ohms, Normal for headphones <64ohms, High Gain for headphones 64-300 ohms, than Extra High for headphones 300-600 ohm. Which setting are you using for these, since these are 62 ohms. I have like a $20 headphones right now and they were on the lowest settings before 16-32. Than just to experiment I switched to Normal, being 64 ohms and their was a big difference in sound increase. I didn't bother to go higher with current headphones because I didn't wanna risk damaging either my sound card or even these headphones since they are the only ones I have right now. I was assuming you can only use the gain setting matching what ohms your heaphones are, so can can I still go for high or extra high gain settings even though 7XX ohms would be much lower to match the settings?
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123The problem would be with high gain it pushes more electricity through the headphones, without a whole lot of resistance. So avoid the extra gain because it would be like putting a wire from one end of a battery to the other, it would probably not damage the headphones but it could damage your soundcard. So now it's between the normal and high gain. Because it falls between both categories, i would think that it would be better with the high gain than normal, but it might sound better with normal just at a lesser volume. The safest way to do it is to try normal and high gain, avoiding extra high for risk of damage, and low gain because it won't have the power to push decent volumes. Now all physics aside, you can switch between the two gain settings (I would recommend a 50% volume level on your computer) and see which sounds better. The high gain will be louder, but the way to see which is better is to listen to a well recorded song and see if you can hear things in one setting you can't hear in another. Which one is better is not a well known science, some headphones sound better on low, some sound better on high, and some headphones truly have no sound difference between the two and it's purely a matter of volume.
Avoid extra high, listen to the whole song (whichever you choose, just avoid YouTube because they compress audio quality) on normal first, and then the whole song again on high. If you hear things one way you don't hear another, or if you prefer the way one sounds over the other, go with that one.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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Nov 28, 2016
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SK123Extra high.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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Nov 28, 2016
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lshriveri tried that but then did the math.
Find a spreadsheet Amp headphone calc sheet and go through the numbers. Extra high gain is for 300+. The electrical part of the equation goes through based on the properties of the headphones. These need juice to sound good. I can run these at high at 75% or extra high at 25%. and the 25% has more sound clarity. These phones will take what you can throw at them.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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Nov 28, 2016
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SK123http://www.digizoid.com/power.php
This One is accurate. If you plug in the specs of the headphones it tells you the vrms you need for certain decibals. I found that 120db required 3.52 vrms. And the card your useing Has that much at extra high. I think the vrms of the stx2 is 7. thats right that card can power any headphone you get.
The more juice you you can pump through the better they sound simply because of the fidelity at higher settings
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123TheGeeMan - Mid range and low range headphones will sound better at 25% volume, while these are entrance level to the high end headphones. These will go up to high volume without distorting like lower end headphones do. Extra high gain with computer at 25% may sound different because on some headphones amount of gain changes the whole sound, while on others like the HD 800, the gain only changes volume. You are exactly right in the fact that these cans will take what you throw at them. That is why I didnt say it would harm the headphone. And it might not harm your sound card either, but I wouldn't recommend it. These headphones are not hard to drive by any means, but they can be picky about the source (meaning it will sound better with one dac than another) A matter of sound with different gain settings is not always determined by spreadsheet, but rather is done by the ears. (not meaning to diss, just saying that more gain is not inherently better, it changes by the headphone, and also one company says that you need X amount of power to "drive" Y amount of ohms, and another says you need R amount of power for T amount of ohms. It's not a standardized system) So if extra high gain sounds better to you go For it. I would personally go with normal or high gain. And whichever sounds better of the two.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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TheGeeManAlso you generally dont listen at that kind of volume. 120 decibels is the equivelent of a live rock concert standing moderately close to the speakers. Painful volumes to be at 120. Most analytical listening is done at less than 90 db. And I have headphones that are more analytical at less gain on amps Than high gain. More volume is mot inherently better. Every headphone is different, sometimes even the same headphone, sometimes one HD 600 will sound better than a different HD 600 with the same amp and dac combo. The HD 700's sound better on normal gain than high gain on the Schiit/magni combo.
Nov 28, 2016
TheGeeMan
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SK123the high gain sounded muddy to me. When I jacked it up it sounded much better to my ears.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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Nov 28, 2016
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SK123Makes perfect sense you guys, thank you so much for sharing this valuable info!!
Now can't wait to get my hands on my very first hifi cans. Probably will keep this pair for next 2-3 yrs and than upgrade to perhaps a mid range hifi stuff as this thing is probably entry level hifi set as Ishriver said.
If you guys dont mind sharing ur opinion, what do you think of HD6xx and these, both at the same price? I could have waited for HD6xx to once again get a deal here, but speaking cosmetically they didn't look nice at all, i.e. the blue color and all, plus all these hifi headsets for some reason are HUGE. This is one of the big reasons I was really leaning towards R70x, they looked half decent. But than again first priority is sound quality above all.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123Mine sound best (using an amp of the same quality as your sound card) on high. But again, there are differences from headphone to headphone, just like one processor will overclock with less voltage than another identical to it. If you're happy with your settings, stick with em. I am not telling you that you are wrong about your stuff, just that one way is not ALWAYS better than the other. It's best to test which sounds better and go with what you like. I don't doubt that yours sound better on the extra high by the way.
Oh and by the way I am not saying nor have I been saying that your sound card cannot drive high impedance cans Volume wise. Yours do have the power, it's just not gonna be the same sound quality as an external meant for it is. Sound cards are meant to do anything, vs high end amps are meant for specific cans or specific impedances. Look at the hdvd 600 and hdvd 800. Very different in price, and in quality, even though they look almost the same, and are meant for headphones with identical nominal impedance. You have a great sound card. There's just better options out there but at the cost of money, and convenience because it takes up extra space since external stuff isn't stored inside of your computer.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123The HD 6XX (actually HD 650's) are great, but they sound smooth to me. It's more pleasing to listen to but not as analytical. If you wanted to hear more details I would go akg, but if you wanted the less analytical, more "pleasant" sounding headphones the HD 6xx's would be great too.
If they had a drop on the HD 600's instead of the 650's, I would recommend the 600's. But between these two I would recommend the 7XX.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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lshriverHmm I see. Yeah it's really confusing when you have all these choices and you gotta choose one. I'm sure I won't regret these as a purchase. But yeah if I get a chance at some store, will go and try the different headsets. But again, it would be difficult to judge based on what sound card I have vs what would be their source of power at the store. Personally I was really looking for pleasant sound, as well as enhanced effects at the same time. I guess it would be really the high, high-end ones that would do this job.
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123HD 700's are not what you want then. They are analytical but not really pleasant unless you use them for video games or movies (which then they are great.) The akg's will surprise you. You have high hopes, but you will still be surprised when you hear them. They do a good job at doing both. The original HD 800 was a great tool and amazing listening experience, although I had to EQ down the highs a bit. I have not yet heard the 800S (Supposedly fixed the highs at the cost of slightly more Harmonic distortion) Beyerdynamic 880 pros are fairly good, I never had good experiences with Stax though.
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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lshriverDid you mean the K7XX? I am sure I will still like these because again this is my first time buying all the hifi stuff. In past I've just had regular $20 headphones plus using DFX audio enhancer.
Than decided to build a very first gaming PC, and than decided to make it audiophile grade as well. Hmm let's see. Will only learn with experiences and of course guys like you being kind enough to share your knowledge and help make better decisions!!
Nov 28, 2016
lshriver
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SK123No, i meant HD 700. They are a sennheiser headphone
Nov 28, 2016
SK123
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SK123Ooh ok, I get it.
Nov 28, 2016
DankusMemus
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Nov 29, 2016
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SK123this is a pretty long thread haha
Nov 29, 2016
SK123
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Nov 29, 2016
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DankusMemusyeah very informative one too (at least for me). it's rare ppl bother to help out others but im really glad and thankful for all the suggestions and explanation.
Nov 29, 2016
SK123
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Jan 19, 2017
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lshriverDear Ishriver,
I just had some confusion and thought I'd see if I can get some more info and opinion from you. Unfortunately I had cancelled this drop for K7XX because there were K712 available for ~153 GBP at amazon.uk so I instead went for those. I just happened to receive them today because they were out of stock for like 10 days and the shipment was several weeks late as well. Anyhoo, I just wanted to say that I am greatly disappointed in these. I don't know how else to put it. As I mentioned before I have STX II and not an external dac/amp may be that's why I cant feel the satisfactory sound. I know these still need the break-in time but I doubt that will change a lot.
I previously had something like a $20 JVC headphones and I was also using the DFX sound enhancer. These sound like they at most should be +$30=$50 headphones considering how tiny/insignificant sound change I experienced + have a much sturdy design. The only big (and I mean big) difference is how loud these are on 64-300 ohm settings, but the >sound quality< is just not doing the thing for me. I know I still got a good deal on these but I really regret buying these as the sound quality is just not satisfactory for me at all.
Please suggest if you or anybody else have any advice for me? I needed to know what Schiit amp/dac combo would you recommend me? I mean they start from a few hundred bucks and go over a thousand I believe. I was kind of hoping between $250-350 USD, or any other price range which would be ideal (for many different high-end cans) without spending thousands? I will probably end up selling my sound card (if I'm lucky) for around $200 CAD and it's only 3-4 months since I got it.
Jan 19, 2017
lshriver
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Jan 20, 2017
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SK123All of the bottom 3 low end models are what I recommend. The magni 2 and magni 2 Uber are only different in features, not sound quality. Same goes with the modi 2. one is an amp one is the dac. Burn in will change a decent amount, but sometimes good headphones sound "tinny" because lower end headphones (and beats) compensate low sound quality with extra bass, making it sound more full artificially. If you want more bass suggest changing the EQ. The nice thing is, the Modi 2 and Magni 2 are some of the most commonly recommended amps and Dac's in the "audiophile" world. You can get the combo for around $200 USD plus shipping if there is any. It's $99 for each of the models I'm recommending but they have the same internals as the $149 and up to $200 models but they lack some features most people wont use.
In case I was confusing, the Schiit Modi 2, And the Schiit Mangi 2 are the products I am recommending as they are very good with pretty much any headphone.
Jan 20, 2017
SK123
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lshriverThank you so much dude. A little update, I had to tweak around the stupid Asus Stx software, and it did change the sound quite a bit. It sounded muddy (but very loud non the less) with Dolby Headphone + 7.1 Virtual Speaker on. Turning those off sounds much more crisp and nice. So yeah I am looking into the dac/amp combo now. lol Im going to college part time and working slightly over min wage so it's really hard right now to spend all that money, but as soon as I am able to sell my sound card, will buy the dac/amp.
Jan 20, 2017
SK123
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lshriverDo you think Modi 2/Asgard 2 combo would work great? Im not sure about different features that are provided with different priced models, i was kinda hoping for a 'middle path' with getting best possible sound for the price, especially considering the amp. But still not sure about the dac part if I really need a more expensive dac?
Jan 20, 2017
lshriver
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SK123Headphones only work on analog signals, so a better dac does wonders..... to an extent. The modi 2 is considered a mid range to high end DAC and pretty much the last point before diminishing returns. Spending more will get you better but it's not gonna change a whole lot. Amps on the other hand scale pretty well, and having 7.1 on will always sound bad when listening to music lol. The asgard 2 would also be a great amp, slightly less neutral but may sound better to listen to because from what I've heard and read it's slightly heavy on the bass, enough to be pleasant and not enough to ruin or overpower anything else.
Jan 20, 2017
SK123
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lshriverThank you so much once again, just lovely explanation!!
Jan 20, 2017
SK123
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lshriverCan you also just very briefly tell me about pre-amps and whether I should need one? In future I plan to build a decent home theatre system so I will keep all these points in mind to for that as well. Thanks!!
Jan 20, 2017
lshriver
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Jan 21, 2017
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SK123You do not need a preamp. A preamp is for microphones, not speakers. Plug a good microphone into a preamp, and the preamp into the mixer or computer and it will change the sound quality before you even mix it. It's not for use with speakers or headphones.
edit: they can be used for headphones and speakers, but it's pointless because you would have a full sized amp anyways. The ones meant for microphones are larger, but usually preamps meant for speakers are pretty small, like some used in mid range turntables so they can fit inside without taking up too much space
Jan 21, 2017
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lshriverAwesome, thanks a lot once again!!
Jan 21, 2017
TheGeeMan
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SK123Set it to extra high gain for the best sound quality on the Stx2.
These headphones need the juice.
I would also suggest dolby headphone A for gaming and Dolby C for music.
Jan 24, 2017
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TheGeeManOh, thanks a lot for this. Will play with the settings and see how it turns out.
Jan 24, 2017
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Jun 2, 2017
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lshriverHey Ishriver & TheGeeMan, how is it going?
I just wanted to get your opinions (and anybody else who wishes to share their knowledge too). Ever since stepping into the audiophile world, I just wanna taste what's more out their and have been reading into it. From what I gathered, the really high end stuff, people prefer multbit dacs (schiit was mentioned) and tube amps, which can be quite costly reaching $2k and over.
I was inquiring about the same stuff on some youtube video and a person replied " i will say if you do get a tube amp, you should have a nice solid state amp as well. If you only get a solid state, then a tube is optional".
Is this true? Pretty much everywhere else on the different forums I read that people preferred tube amps, and for the first time I heard that one could also need double amps, ie. both sold state and tube? The dude said didnt have much technical knowledge so was not able to answer this: I wanted to know if headphone dac/amp combo could also be used to power studio monitors, multiplying the audio/sound quality several folds?
I somewhere read that studio monitors already have amps built in them but they could use the dacs, so I needed to know if one could use either or both with the monitors? are their any monitors that dont come with the built in amps and could use headphone dac/amp combo?
Thank you so much for your time you guys always put in greatly explaining this audio stuff!!
Jun 2, 2017
lshriver
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SK123Wow lots of stuff here. Solid states will almost always be more accurate sound than tube, however tubes make a more "pleasant" sound, so since you are not a professional audio tech, you will probably prefer the more pleasant sound.
To the high end speakers (studio monitors) most good ones will be "powered" which essentially means there is an amp in each speaker so you have to plug them into a wall. Plugging an amp into them will probably change the sound, but a good DAC would be more useful for that. The thing about speakers is to reach the same audio perfection, you'll have to spend a lot more than a pair of equally good headphones, but you also get to share the music as well as "Feel" it when the subs kick in, which is pretty cool.
Yes, there are monitors that don't have amps built in. It's quite common however they're usually the cheap ones. If you don't know if it has an amp built in look at the specs, if its powered it will most likely have a spec saying voltages like "110-240v 3 amp" which even though it doesn't say how good or what the amp is, you'll know it has it otherwise it wont be plugged in. Usually the amps in monitors are made to work with the monitor to make the most accurate sound.
Jun 2, 2017
SK123
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lshriverAwesome!! thank you so much for the explanation.
Jun 3, 2017
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