i live far too close to all the music shops in central london
so to answer my own question, no and yes
they compare sufficiently to the sony fontopias i was using for monitoring before
need a better output for the laptop now but i can't use firewire
is a decent usb soundcard with headphone port worth it? can you get dedicated usb headphone amps?
incidentally i had some beyerdynamics, dt150 or 250 or something i think, and they were pretty nice until i lost them, not as good as the hd600 though and quite uncomfortable. lots of bass though
so to answer my own question, no and yes
they compare sufficiently to the sony fontopias i was using for monitoring before
need a better output for the laptop now but i can't use firewire
is a decent usb soundcard with headphone port worth it? can you get dedicated usb headphone amps?
incidentally i had some beyerdynamics, dt150 or 250 or something i think, and they were pretty nice until i lost them, not as good as the hd600 though and quite uncomfortable. lots of bass though