Thanks for all the help to both. I'll be going with A900X + Xonar DX for sure now. Still researching amps but will probably just pick one of your suggestions, again I appreciate the help.

Quote:   Very much appreciated info. I overlooked a sound card, because I was under the impression that an external dac/amp would be much better in terms of getting bang out of your money. I will gladly hold on to my dollar bills. Thanks for list as well, do you feel that any of the...

Hello guys. (TL;DR below) I'm pretty new to audiophile gear, but I'm looking to get a somewhat good home setup going for under $500. Seeing as it's Black Friday weekend. I figured it would be a good time as any. My old setup was simply plugging my m50's straight into my desktop's headphone...

Quote: Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into those. I did a slight amount of thread searching and found this: http://www.head-fi.org/t/620775/the-sub-200-portable-amps-shootout-11-8-amps-compared Without much research beyond amazon reviews I was leaning towards an e17, but this...

Hello guys, I'll try and keep this short. I'm pretty new to audiophile gear, but I'm looking to get a somewhat good home setup going for under $400. Seeing as it's Black Friday weekend. I figured it would be a good time as any. I bought some Audio Technica ATH M50s about a year ago and they...