have you ever noticed funny smell coming from your little dot amp?

hi, i'm the market for a little dot tube headphone amp with preamp fuction. Before I get into inquiring about which model would suit me the best, I need to ask you first, does your little dot smell funny or has it ever been since you took it out of the box from the day one? Funny as in that distinctive 'paintshop' smell that a lot of the chinese gears seem to emit, some for only couple days or so and some, like the el34 tube amp i used to own... permanently. My tube amp had a problem with the paint job. the paint on the chassis was not the proper thermal grade for the job and would gas off that fresh paint smell whenever it got heated enough from the tubes. and the transformer varnish also had a smell that would always flare up with the heat. The amp was causing an olfactory chaos in my living room that I eventually returned it to the shop. Does your little dot have or ever had any problems like these? If I were to stick my nose right next to the chassis after the unit has heat up, would I be able to smell anything but hot air? I need to know. I'm paranoid... thanks for your time, gents. 

so you're saying that you only smelled it when you opened the chassis and after a week or two it should no longer even be there when you open it back up? 
 

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Originally Posted by GotNoRice 

The units will have a bit of that "new electronics" smell.  Probably just solder flux IMO.

 

The smell does not persist any significant amount of time, maybe a week or two.  I also don't ever remember smelling it beyond the times I opened the chassis to change jumpers.

 

I've also never had any issues with the paint.

your answers are assuring, somewhat. however, I think the chinese makes 110v transformer with different (probably better) specifications than 220v ones. i'll still pull the trigger on a LD IV SE pretty soon.