Quote:Reveal your secrets! I must know if I can upgrade my (modded into 595) HD 555s!
(Looking at around $200 headphones though....man I'm going to be broke after all this...)
If you have a pair of 595s those are already high end headphones.
For anyone in the market for new headphones I would recommend: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6826402014
Audiophile grade components, easily some of the best headphones ever made and they are a steal at that price (when they first came on the market they were triple that).
But if you have successfully modded your 555s into 595s then you already have a pair that is just as good if not better. Anything past a 595 is almost pointless in my opinion. Huge mountains of cash for extremely small improvements that I doubt you will even be able to notice, especially with low end hardware feeding the signal. Use that $200 to buy a high end audio card instead.
Audiophile grade headphones easily go into the thousands of dollars range but there is little to no point in buying them without a good audio card or headphone amp + external DAC to feed them a clean signal free of electrical noise. And even then the benefits over a good $200 pair are unlikely to be noticed by human ears.
Oh and by the way you should get this monitor instead of the one I originally recommended: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/...itor-1.ars
It will be on the market soon and it's $150 cheaper so that should give you some money to buy and audio card with.
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