My headphone amp broke – that’s why. It will be a month or so before I have the means to buy a new one, so hang in there, I’ll be back soon enough.!
Actually, while I’m here I may as well tell you about my little dead amp. I got it a few weeks ago from eBay – one of those cheap Chinese Muse 6N11 pretend tube amps. Not great, but it did have a lovely warm, fuzzy sound. Very coloured, but pleasantly rounded. Really sounded vintage, reminded me of early 70’s low end tube amps. Wobbly, you know?
Sadly, it died after only a few hours of service 🙁 I have no idea what’s wrong with it (although I suspect there’s a broken capacitor in there somewhere) so I’m not going to go snooping around looking for solutions.
Crazy as I am, I’m looking to buy the MKII version of it. So much promise in a cheap little unit, and I really don’t feel these other expensive headphone amps are worth their money. If I manage to get one that works, I’ll look into doing some mods, replace some components etc.
But until then no headphones means no music :-/
Muse 6N11Headphone Amp