As much as I appreciate good sound, I can’t help but laugh at the “unobtainium cables doped with powdered unicorn horn” crowd. One of my favorite listening setups involves plugging a nice pair of studio headphones directly into the surprisingly good audio output of my main desktop computer’s motherboard. I hadn’t even bought that board for its audio section (ECC memory support was its main selling point for me), and I was quite happy to find that its built-in headphone amp was absolutely up to the task.
