Recent content by garfnon

The D2000's are known to have plenty of bass, too much for some peoples' tastes. I myself had to partially markl mod them to tame the bass. Agreed with the others, you probably need an amp to drive them adequately.

Actually the AV710 is a pretty good card, especially for the price. You have to use the output jack with the Wolfson DACs though. Also, I wouldn't really recommend a Zero. Way too many QC issues and no real customer support.

The masses still use XP.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/asus-xonar-d2x-review/5

I've heard good things about the Sennheiser HD 25-1-II.

http://audigy2zshowto.blogspot.com/ Not sure if that helps.

I'd say just get a nice sound card with optical out for now (for a potential amp down the road) . When you're ready, then start considering new headphones or amps.

I just tried: AV710 -> HA-RX900 Ipod 5G -> cmoy -> HA-RX900 Ipod 5G -> HA-RX900 Same results. I'll try it with some more sources later. I removed the felt driver cover, but I doubt that would could this.

I got these headphones as they seemed to be the FOTM here and on head-fi. They were also cheap enough so that I couldn't resist :p. After nearly 100hrs of burn in, I think they are really nice and probably better than my HD555s except for one thing...sibilance. Even on low/moderate volume...

Good point. But my point is that the CPU will not use 260w by itself.

Those numbers are for the whole system, albeit with a 6200.

Uhhh....

Any of the Intel G31/33/35 based motherboards would fit that criteria. Just so you know you're not limited to an Intel branded mobo.

You don't need 2.2v for Ballistix...that's how a lot of people burn them out. I've run mine at standard 1.8v before at those spd/timings.

I'm in