Hi, I'm new to the forum and I'm just getting started in the world of audio with headphones. I have read a lot here about dacs and amps, in my country (Argentina) it is very difficult to get these equipments because of the current economy. I decided for the topping stack (e30 + l30), I got it about a month ago and I was very happy with it, using it with my takstar pro 82.
Today I am very sad, I will tell you about the situation:
Today I was listening to music normally, enjoying my match topping stack + takstar, in a moment of the night I leave them connected and I go to dinner. After spending about 30 minutes or so I return to my room and find the smell of burning (I thought the worst and it was), I find that my takstar had the right driver very hot and came out a very very ugly smell of burning right there. I smell l30 and it didn't seem to have much smell, and by the touch it had the usual temperature (not very high, I don't have to measure it). I quickly disconnected everything, just in case. Then, I find that the volume knob was stuck, with a little force I could unlock it, but it was left with a strange movement, I didn't have it before. The dac e30 was fine so I checked it. I touch the drivers of the takstar and the right one was melted.
Now I'm afraid of connecting anything again, I don't know what the problem will be.
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Anyway, I am very sad. With what it cost me to get these equipments...
I bought the takstar through Aliexpress in January, I just saw that I have 1 year warranty, so I guess I can use it.
I bought the topping stack in Shenzhenaudio, I have them since a month ago and so far I had no problems, if I was afraid of the temperature that raises the l30, I put a cooler under it to help and it was. But now this happened, I don't know what to do!
Any similar experiences here?
Sorry if it's misspelled, I'm using a translator.