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But not with the new Macbook Air, which has a cut down TB controller that only supports 1 display.

DO IT Even after getting an amp they will be cheaper than if you got just the phones at retail.

Between my DT880 and my AKG K702, I would give comfort to the K702. The pads are so big they don't ever make contact with your ear.

I'm having a strange problem in Burnout Paradise PC. After having installed ENBSeries and then removing it, I notice a strange, 100% reproducible problem with random, semi-transparent "planes" visible on the road. They disappear when I disable AA. They are always in the same place and are shaded...

Here's what I use, highlights are bolded: 1Password: Damn fine pw manager. Fidelia: Lets me use AU monitoring and effects with my local music. Pixelmator: Very fast, efficient image editor, cheaper than (but not as powerful as) Photoshop Spotify: Music service. BatChmod: Useful utility...

It might not be a bad idea. A high power amp will drive your phones to higher volume levels. My Tube DAC-09 drives my high impedance cans to deafeningly high volumes at just half volume where the iPhone and both my PC and Mac only go a small distance above the pain threshold at max volume. Here...

Crysis 2 DX11 w/ Tessellation brings my 2x6970 to their knees at barely playable framerates. Nvidia is apparently much better with that game.

I tried to plot it, but all I get is a blank plot in Mathematica. Maybe I made a typo in translating it, or maybe it's too much for it. ContourPlot[ ((x/7)^2*Sqrt[Abs[Abs[x] - 3]/(Abs[x] - 3)] + (y/3)^2*Sqrt[ Abs[y + (3 Sqrt[33])/7]/(y + (3 Sqrt[33])/7)] - 1)*(Abs[x/2] -...

Sure, then I think these speakers should be fine for your purposes, which I are assume are for music enjoyment and light 2.0/2.1 video editing. As mentioned, future upgrades would be an inline subwoofer and a decent USB/Optical DAC. Also, be sure to consider the M200MKIII, an improved model of...

These are marketed as near field monitors and not as highly colored "hifi" speakers, so they should be fine for audio mixing purposes. That said, every speaker will have some coloration, bias, and flaws. Moving up the price brackets (ideally) eliminates these problems more and more, though with...

Using passive speakers could provide better results, but it might be more expensive upfront due to cost of individual components. Someone else might be able to address that question better than I can. With regard to output from the iMac, either a USB or Optical DAC would be good. Both have...

The M200MKIII (note the extra I) is marketed as having an engineered cutoff at 53Hz. You may need to get a subwoofer to get an extended bass response. In the mean time, the speakers work quite well without one. Make sure the sub is capable of standing inline between the speakers and the source...

Well, the Swan M200MKII or the Audioengine A5 should fit in budget. Both are active speakers desktop speakers, meaning no amplifier is needed (though maybe a DAC could benefit down the road). I personally have the M200MKIII, and they sound quite nice, even if there are more expensive options...

Yeah, ultimately any cooler is going to dump all the heat into your room. The better ones just do that faster and more quietly. The only way to avoid the extra heat in your room is for your CPU to not generate it at all.

I game at 1440p. A single 580 may fall short. So if you don't want to spend more than a grand on video cards, 2x6970, 2x6950, 2xGTX570 (may have VRAM limit), 1x6990, or 1xGTX590. If you go for crossfirex 6950 or 6970, make sure that you get a board with at least 2 spaces in between the PCIE...

Just putting in my vote for 2x6970. OC them and you can get much better performance than 590 and might get to a performance close to 580 SLi.