Don’t worry about getting an amp until you have the headphones. They’ll proably be fine with your goXLR.
It looks to me like the goXLR gets its power from the computer via USB.
If you can’t get enough volume out of the goXLR then consider buying a headphone amp
Sounds like you want Beyerdynamics, TBH, If you like treble and bass.
You’ll find no critics of HD600. They’re the defacto “audiophile headphone”
A friend of mine used to own a hifi business. I bought a tube amp off him and like a decade later found a second one. I guess sometime over the years he gave me another (?). Sold it for $700. Found a sweet DAC too
Beyerdynamics don’t have any movable plastic parts or plastic-on-plastic. the headband is metal and, although the slider mechanism has a plastic cover, the slider itself is metal-on-metal. The cups are plastic, but it’s not flexible and doesn’t move against anything
Planars are so fragile that it causes the headband to break!
which one sits on your head 90% of the time?
Finally did removable cable mod on mu DT770 which have been unused for years with a broken cable.
Congratulations, you’ve experienced placebo!
that’s some thicc marketing speak
Bluetooth is a good format
My advice to anyone who thinks cables do anything: Have a look at all of the wires that you can’t usually see. The wires inside the amplifier are crap. The signal also travels through thin copper traces a fration of a milometer thick. Before exiting your amp, the signal goes through resistors, which are basically the equivalent to the world’s worst wire.
The first thing that happens inside the headphone is that the signal goes into a wire that’s as thin as a hair.
Ditto for power cables. The wire in your walls are crap, the cables inside the amp is crap and the wirst place that the power cable goes to is a fuse (a super thin wire)
Let your ears decide rather than worrying about other peoples’ judgement
You probably need an amp.
If you’re not in the EU, start with the apple USBC headphone dongle. It’s only like $15 and should be a good improvement
2.5 words to all homeowners: Double handrails.