yep.. get a good grip on the sound from ur headphone, and find an amp that improve it to ur liking, or to a higher level.. whichever u prefer.

windows 7?
i suspect it is..
neways, u can try using other usb cable, preferably shorter.. see if that helps.

just buy the universal screen protector and cut to shape.

govibe martini / van den hul interconnect cable.
vdh might be a bit thick tho.. copper cryo (warmer) might be preferable.
u can try pm yuheng for recommendations of amps..

Announcing...
2000hr on my ATH-W10VTG...
i dunno whether it's just me.. but i seem to find it getting better and better.. am still impressed when i listen to it everytime.

sure.. also usually it'll need that extra few hrs to deliver the changes..
i also got something else i wanna bring, see how bad it dies in front of yamamoto..

sure, would love to do a serious try on ur esw9.. i always thought of it as the most natural sounding woody.. too bad jaben sold off their last unit.

since i replied a pm on this.. i'll put it here too..

music is not a constant noise, its dynamic. it has variation.. it goes really high, and really low.

there are some reports saying that using noise to burnin stress the driver a lot, in which i would agree, since it always force the driver to continuously produce all frequency range at the same time. some also reported a broken driver due to using noise for burnin. while i dont know whether it's valid or not, i dont want to take the risk.

well take it this way.. a seasoned sofa, that people always sits and gets off, would retain it's shape even after few years, but becomes softer. but if u put a rock on the sofa for sometime, the sofa would have a permanent shape of the rock on the sofa, and the shape would retain even after quite sometime.

now since the noise are almost constant.. it can be considered like a solid rock in the example above.

i burn strictly using music, and my headphone have passed 2000hr, my woody2 have passed 1400hr.. with no problem whatsoever. i believe the variation in music is more needed to smoothen the drivers..

say bro.. im not sure ck10 benefits so much from burnin.. but lemme know if u find any difference tho.

that one got 2 big fireplace (bulb) wat..

imho stick with it..
no point sidegrade, or minor upgrade..
i think at ad700.. better upgrade source first.. get good dac, later get good amp.
then only tarus go flagship..
if not, improvement not really big.. since those top ones really needs good source and amping to push.

not burned enuff... i think.
the bass takes time to cleanup.
unless u prefer bass lite.. i find the bass just nice in quantity on ad300

i got my bro an ad300 b4 i got my vtg..
1.5yr old+.. well burned...

when i first got my vtg, i compared it with the ad300.. and..
it's almost at the same level...
after about.. 600hr on my vtg.. then the gap starts to widen..

hippo case..
too lazy to look for links.. just pm walabies or yuheng..

how bass heavy?
if bass > vocals, mids, and trebles.. ad300 might not satisfy..
m30 might be better.
if bass amount = vocals, mids = trebles.. then ad300 is ok.
if bass amount >(LOTS)> vocals, mids, trebles.. then might be ws70.

if u need isolation, m30.
if u dont need isolation, ad300
if u need good 3D, ad300.

i have not heard m30 myself.. but usually among the similar priced, open cans (sound can leak) are better at 3D positioning.
closed cans (sound doesnt leak, more isolation) have better bass, positioning are usually slightly below open cans.

for movies, i'd suggest open cans, ad300.
if comfort, ad300, m30 might clamp hard and a hotter after sometime.

oh.. u need to have as much sound balance as possible if u want to watch movies.. u dont want girls to have bassy vocals

actually open cans are more natural sounding than closed.
the problem is more because open cans does not isolate.. u can still hear outside noise.

5.1 is messy and.. unless ur movies (most are stereo, except BD and some DVD) or games (most doesnt support 5.1) there's no point getting them.

i heard es55 personally, quite good sound.. not really sure if i can call it bassy tho, coz i find it quite balanced and nice sounding overall that time.

and it's not ws70 bassy.. that one is for maximum earpounding.

never heard fc700..

there's one more person selling a similar built class A monoblock amp.
i decided not to buy it tho. it shud be in bangi, unless my bro passed it to pcwork already.
huhu..

pushpull is not class A i think.. shud be class AB?

if the amp cant cook eggs..
it'll just be another amp..
wait until it's heated up..
then u'll find the class A stellar.
yamamoto takes longer, tubes need to be flaming hot to sound nice.

i cant compare those two since i heard them cold, except that they both sound similar..

i lol at k701.
end of story.. xD

haha..
no lae...
out of all the akgs i tried so far...
i never found akg as a good headphone, rather, just expensive priced headphone with self-claimed reference quality..
i would go for philips or sony anytime over akg.

this one good for ikat2 punya cable.. very suitable for me