Just arrived yesterday everyone on my chats say it sounds amazing no hiss, breathing noises, or keyboard noise. The cancelling is great just needed to adjust gain slightly from stock settings. I also bought a HIFIMAN HE-100 Burr Brown DAC to hold me over till i go O2. Everyone says onboard audio will run the HD595's no problem but i have to disagree. They are twice as loud now, bass is back, and have better detail in game. The unit does color but i dont care for gaming and honestly it sounds great for music listening the stage has a hint of reverb so I would still go straight in when writing music for a more flat sound. For 40 bucks its worth trying out. People complain that they hiss and have noise i have not experienced this with my tower its dead silent. I have heard that when usb dac units do not have enough juice they do this so the solution is get a powered hub. Two Thumbs up on both items I am very happy with my purchase.
My cans are sennheiser HD595s a great entry level headset I can not justify spending more money than this for the upper tier models. You can find them on newegg for around 160.00. They are extremely comfortable, light, and never get hot on the ears even after a full day of DayZ.
i love the idea of the modmic, but i just dont want to have to deal with that extra cable, also i am a laptop user currently and having a crazy long 3m cable for use in a laptop is just not efficient if i had a desktop i would have surely bought it already for my hd 598