It depends, does your Magni+ have a gain switch on the front of it?

If yes, then it's the newer model that is suppose to have this problem fixed.

If no, then this is a potential problem for yours.

Yes it is

Yes it is!

Yea, I wish I had done my due diligence with researching the Heresy. I thought it was safe but a little while after getting it I saw several people suddenly posting about theirs exploding. Stupid me then thought it was just a bad batch!

Your right, it's not worth it. I wish Schiit would realize this and use it to their benefit, 'We care about your hearing, so if you have a Heresy you can trade it in for the safer Heretic!' however they're proving that they don't sadly.

Thanks for the suggestions! Honestly the L30 II is actually looking pretty good right about now! I already have a DAC that I can use so it would be perfect. Looks to have great build quality and, apparently, can survive exploding lol!

I completely forgot about the K5, thanks!!

Ty! Actually that is a great idea! Thankfully my house is pretty quiet but I wish I would have thought of that sooner! Still might do it just to give my ears a rest at night!

I really want to like Schiit, their designs are great, they offer amazing power for the money, and they're inexpensive. However it appears they cut corners to make that happen. Agreed!! The more I think about, the more I lean to just getting an Atom. Wish I had sooner tbh!

Yea, the new Heretic model has protection - I have the Heresy sadly (easiest way to tell is the Heretic has the gain switch on the front, Heresy in the back). I believe it! I plugged a pair of earbuds in while I was trying to figure out if it was the Heresy or not and it got insanely hot in a short order. Had it been plugged in much longer they would have melted!

u/thaeyo reminded me that I probably should update y'all about this Schiit. So here we go!

Schiit did require an order #, thankfully my Amazon one worked just fine. All in all it started off good, the CSR I talked with made sure to notate that my headphones were damaged and that, if at all possible, I would like to exchange my Heresy for a Heretic since I was afraid of this happening again. They tested and found my Heresy to be malfunctioning (wonder what gave them that impression) and gave me.... Another Heresy, as you can see pictured above. Really annoying but I secretly expected no less. After receiving it back and seeing I was given a Heresy, I contacted Schiit's customer service again to ask if there was any way I can exchange this and was told, quote 'I'm sorry but we do not have a trade in/buy back program'. Aka, if you bought a Heresy and it blew up due to our poor design - that's on you. Not gonna lie, I'm still a little pissed about that.

My headphones leave me a little bewildered. Despite noting it in my RMA comment and even having their CSR note it too, I am uncertain if they actually did anything for my headphones. The only acknowledgement of my headphones is a little note that states what was received in the box and what was sent back. There is nothing else said about them. Before I sent them off, I noted that there was a channel imbalance and radio interference in the right ear cup. I will admit that the channel imbalance may have been my hearing, it took far longer than I would have thought to recover from what happened. I do have partial hearing loss in my right ear, however either through healing or compensation it has gotten much much better than it was. So the channel imbalance may have been my hearing. However what I do know for certain is that there is still radio interference in the right ear cup. I attempted to fix this by adding ferrite cores onto the cord but that did nothing, so it's the internal wiring itself that is no longer shielded. As such, I've sent it off to AKG for repair. I'm hoping they can do something but at this point I'm no longer holding my breath. I'm probably going to have buy another pair of K553's.

So in summary, Schiit is Shit. I'm severely disappointed in their handling of the matter and will probably never buy any of their products again. They refused to do anything but the bare minimum and apparently don't care about their customers. Furthermore, I now have an amp that I am not going to use. I would sell it to re-coup some of my money but I don't want the same thing happening to someone else.

Also, anyone have any idea's on a good amp to buy in the sub-$200 price range? Not a fan of the Atom's design but at this point it may not be as nice looking as the Heresy but at least my hearing is safe!!

Thanks to all the people who were concerned for my hearing btw!! Doing much better now, high frequency noise is still hit or miss in my right ear but thank God everything is no longer dramatically shifted to the left anymore!

Stay safe everyone!

This is down way too low.

Buy your children kids headphones so their hearing remains good!!

I lean with no, ignore the guy above you. Subjectively an amp can make it sound a bit different but no amp will objectively 'improve' the sound quality.

The Dt770 (80 ohms) can be powered off of the 3.5mm jack on my 4 year old mid-range phone, I highly doubt your desktop can't power it properly.

There are two possibilities for what is going on:

1. Your not use to the sound, for some people it can take a month before they get use to a headphone. (I don't think this is the case)

Or

2. Everyone's ears are different, which I mean literally. Your ear shape could be causing the headphones to sound horrible for you. That's ok, I'm sorry that you had to find this out the hard way - however now people should be able to recommend better headphones to try.

Since you can't trade your headphones back, you may want to sell them on r/AVExchange - you probably will loose a smidge of money (shipping) however you can get really good deals for other headphones there, so it should even out in the end. Since the Dt770's were too harsh for your ears I'd recommend the Rode NTH-100, Sony MDR-7506, or Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. None have the piercing treble and all are highly recommended around this price point. That said, it would help to get other people's opinions on this. To my ears the Dt 770's sound great but I tend to like bright headphones.