Pre-load complete. Now just another four days of anxiety.
Sadly, I do not have a functioning camera on my phone, so...
(pads replaced with lambskin. Better isolation, even more comfortable and slightly improved bass) Can be run with ease on a Xonar Essence STX even at 600 ohms.
Just recently purchased a few months ago...
Probably the best headphones I have ever heard. Not quite as comfortable as the Beyers due to the heavy cabling, but not uncomfortable. Pads are just as good as the replacement pads I have on the other set. Does NOT run very well at all with just the Xonar. They actually make most things sound much worse than a pair of headphones at less than half the cost. I was never one to put much stock into the headphone *expensive* amp craze that a lot of people try to sell you on, but I have used cheaper amps for a slight improvement. Well, I didn't spend $500 on a headphone amp, but the one I purchased turned these headphones into something extraordinary.
For console use, I quickly moved away from the all in one cans like what is found from Tritton (yuck) and Turtle Beach (yuck). Even the Sennheiser headset is only slightly better.
Not as good as using either of the headphones above paired with the STX, but it's still way better than most other solutions. It's basically a much improved version of the Astro and it also decodes more audio formats. The headphones that come with it are surprisingly good sounding (for the cost) and have a pretty flat balance. Not too much treble, but not head exploding, sub-in-your-head bass either. These also have a headphone out jack so that you can plug in whatever external pair you want, and you can have both headphones running simultaneously. Whenever I am forced to play on a console, I just use the (not spectacular) headphone jack connected to my headphone amp. Haven't tried any of the more modern updates on this yet, like Sony's HDMI 7.1 setup so no idea if it's any better.
