You know, it ends up I can only be so stupid for so long. I have never been completely satisfied with the frequency presentation of my headphones, so I just did a Buy It Now transaction for a clean Ashly PQX 572. Glad I figured it out before I die.

I didn't see the sense of a second round of AD/DA conversion, so old school it is. That whole system is XLR anyway. I anticipate very modest frequency shaping. If it doesn't pan out I will throw it into my speaker rig; just because I don't mind a small mids hump doesn't mean I can't experiment.

Clark

PS Bo, if you said "I told you so", that would be understandable.