[Iceman23]

How are you planning on separating the headphones? Obviously price and gaming/music but beyond that there are great headphones that sound completely different - maybe based on general music genres?

 

[Iceman23]

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Originally Posted by tianhui;13569676

Also- Does the concept of bottle necking apply-
For example, you get a real nice 80 tier sound card but a Lower end 40$ tier headphone / speakers. Will the speakers/headphone bottleneck the true potential of the card?
And vice versa?

Yup, the concept is similar. If you feed a 128kb/s mp3 file through onboard to $20,000 speakers you'll still get crap sound and vice versa. Although, once you have an acceptable soundcard/DAC you'll gain far more with a better headpone/speaker. I would compare that situation to a 2600k. Let's say you're building a $3k rig - sure you could save a bit by going 2500k and still get great performance but if you've already got the best elsewhere, you're going to want to get that extra 10% to make the most out of the rest of your system.

 

[Iceman23]

Did you read the recommendations in the first post?

 

[Iceman23]

That's probably a good ratio in budget. Personally I would grab the Asus Xonar DG for $50 and Audio Technica M50s for $100. What type of music do you listen to?

 

[Iceman23]

M50s probably would suit you well then. AD700s are great for gaming but IMO not for music, they simply lack too much bass.

 

[Iceman23]

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Originally Posted by crizthakidd

so i just bought these cheap speakers
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=300-652&utm_source=googleps
and was impressed much like others about how nice they sound for the price. with a little mod they were sounding nice. it gets boomy after high vol so i am looking for a sub that will shake things up i love house music, adefinitely gaming , and am doing a little more mixing now too so i def need high quality 120-170$ range for a sub to go with these speakers just to bring up the quality a bit more. any recommendations

Here are a few solid options in that price range:

http://www.amazon.com/BIC-America-F12-475-Watt-Subwoofer/dp/B0015A8Y5M/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1322750169&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Dayton-SUB-120-Watt-Powered-Subwoofer/dp/B000C9NV78/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1322750188&sr=1-1