Hey guys!
I just got a pair of DT 1770 to use for commuting, replacing my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless. Thus, I need a portable amp. I have an old HRT microStreamer which have been dead for about 5 years which I want to fix if possible!
The amp distorts heavily on both line-out and headphone-out, using the headphone-out it almost sounds like there is a clean unamplified signal in the background which gets distorted as soon as the amp needs any power to drive the headphones. But don't ge me wrong, it's constantly distorting.
It might have broke by the amps chassis grounding in the cable channel beneath my desk, the amp made some audible noises when contacting the metal before it broke. Kind of weird as the channel shouldn't have been grounded and it's painted, but it probably connected with some other PC equipment also.
Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? A bad capacitor in the powerfeed to the DAC?
The components are surface mounted, but I've got a friend who's worked with surface mount soldering so we might be able to fix it if we figure out whats wrong.
I've thought about sending it to HRT as well, but their homepage seems inactive. Are they still in business?
Thankful for all help! 🙂
//Peccz
I just got a pair of DT 1770 to use for commuting, replacing my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless. Thus, I need a portable amp. I have an old HRT microStreamer which have been dead for about 5 years which I want to fix if possible!
The amp distorts heavily on both line-out and headphone-out, using the headphone-out it almost sounds like there is a clean unamplified signal in the background which gets distorted as soon as the amp needs any power to drive the headphones. But don't ge me wrong, it's constantly distorting.
It might have broke by the amps chassis grounding in the cable channel beneath my desk, the amp made some audible noises when contacting the metal before it broke. Kind of weird as the channel shouldn't have been grounded and it's painted, but it probably connected with some other PC equipment also.
Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? A bad capacitor in the powerfeed to the DAC?
The components are surface mounted, but I've got a friend who's worked with surface mount soldering so we might be able to fix it if we figure out whats wrong.
I've thought about sending it to HRT as well, but their homepage seems inactive. Are they still in business?
Thankful for all help! 🙂
//Peccz