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After spending more time with my new headphone amplifier I decided to put it aside for time being. I have learned today that there is something g deeply wrong with it. It sounds quite fine before but today I actually has a first time not juts to “listen the amp” but to spent a day with headphones and listen the amplifier in duration.

Despise of quite nice all together sound (in fact I do like it) I have detected that this headphone amplifies produce some ….pain. At my work I seldom have a luxury to listen for one-two hours without interruption. Today I did have this chance. Suddenly in the third act of the Rigoletto I detected that I have a physical pain in my ears and in upper part of my head.  The volume level was very low, I was not tiered or something like and I never had any pain effects from headphones. It was something very new.

In took the headphones off and the pain gone within ~5 minutes. It was not really only a pain but rather a pain combined with feeling of scuba diving submersion. When I “vented” myself or did the swallowing then the pain did not do away though.  I put the headphones back and the pain returned with 10 minutes. Interestingly then since then the appearance of the pain was very predicable. I was playing with it for a while, trying to detect musical marital or anything else that might be responsible for it and then I made an exciting experiment. When the pain did show up again I unplugged the headphone from my “Little Amplifier” and pluged them directly into my CD played from which I sourced the signal for the headphone amplifier. The effect was magical! The pains was rapidly evaporating from my head and was gone within 3-4 seconds. It was very-very remarkable, as I was able completely predictably inflict the pain by my “Little Amplifier” and then very distinctly to remove the pain by continuing play the music from my CD player, even at volume of 6db louder than the headphone amplifier did.

Defiantly I do something very wrong in my headphone amp. Until I find what it was I would consider the amp unusable.

Bad bad bad kitty!
Romy the caT

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