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Definitely get yourself a Surge Protector!!. You don't have to spend the big bucks right away. Just get a decent power strip with surge protection, then later on you may want to get something better.

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That I've got...but the power grid around where I live (within the greater Detroit area) sucks. Lots of unclean power. Maybe that was the cause, maybe it wasn't...but I'm not losing sleep over it any more.

Certainly doesn't look too hot Tom (excuse the pun) but it's probably easy to repair.

14V at no load is fine so I doubt the problem lies with the X-PSU. That blackened valve sounds more like the culprit to me. What breed of valve was it?

I can find out the resistor values for you so there are no worries on that score. What condition is the track in, I'd imagine that amount of fire damage would probably have lifted some of it?

Just looked at "all" the pictures and notice that the top board is also damaged? If this is the case then it does look more likely to be something to do with the power supply side of things.

Mike.

The valves were the JJ's that Nick D recommends on his website. The bottom of the circuit board under the torched resistors is damaged, but not extensively. I'm thinking that I could do some point to point repair if needed...it doesn't look too bad.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is my first real headphone amp, and I'm rather attached to it. Thanks.

Can you post the boards over to the uk?

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