
The FiiO E10K is often the budget dac/amp combo of choice. If you're using a laptop or have a poor sound card, I highly recommend that you get an external dac/amp combo or pair, they'll be very worth it. I'm not sure how much of a difference lacking an external dac/amp would make since I do use an external pair but if you're using a decent mobo with decent on board sound card, the difference shouldn't be that big. People do overrate them often, but at the price point they're absolutely terrific.

However, they almost completely lack any kind of bass, and the treble is a tiny bit emphasized, but I've used software equalization to fix them, and they're pretty great. They're very comfortable, have good clarity, are cheap (don't pay more than 55 for them, very easy to find them at 55 new), don't require an external amp to be driven, have decent accuracy for their price. Look man I’m just confused and I just wanna have a setup that I can work with. You think that $20 amp would be enough to just boost my sound enough to make most of the things I play and listen to loud enough?

Keep in mind that despite the expensive set of phones I got, I’m not actually doing anything crazy like studio work, just casual stuff like gaming and listening to music. I’m not familiar with DACs, but could this possibly work for my particular set of headphones and my desktop? If not, you think if I were to exchange my 250 ohms set for an < 80 ohms set my PC would be able to power it? I don’t know exactly how I find out the power output of my motherboard’s built in sound system, so I guess I gotta play the guessing game. What do you think: psc=1&refRID=JQR4GFRSPRJVT7ZR972X You’re probably right, so I think I might found something that’s more for me.
