(update in progress) Falenkor's Competitive Headphone Write Up. Now with added Hardware explanations!

Ah okay good makes finding you a headphone rather easy in this regard.

It will take them a bit, so an upgrade doesn’t hurt… they are quite nice for your use case. As far as headsets go on the closed market there isn’t better performing yet outside of the steel series and orbit but this is only because of there preset equalizer allowing them to have the correct signature… they still suck for soundstage and imaging is only decent.

Start out mid way since you have the evga number. Something like the l30 is decent… though I’d recommend something from schiit or lake people.

As for headphones this is quite easy… best sound stage best imaging is the dt 770 and its step up brethren… dt 1770 is nice and 177x go is a subtle v or rather one harman like to my ear… all share that soundstage and imaging just difference In signature. The main concern is the bass as closed backs naturally come with more bass… it’s not too bad out of the box but on pc just use peace apo, it’s free, to dial it back where you need it

As you already really like the 1990 this should work perfect for you, more so if you prefer b pads on the 1990 as the increased bass are similar. I should add… if you wanted to turn a dt 770 wireless you can but you need to mod it or have it modded to have a detached 3.5mm cable. Then just need a blue tooth 3.5mm adapter

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