Micca Origain is susceptible to static shock

Equipment / Electronics / Gear / Accessories Speaker Amps
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So I found this out the hard way. Touched the volume knob, felt a mild static shock, and poof, the amp was dead. It’s a shame because until this happened, I was VERY happy with the amp. Never had this problem with literally any other electronic device I’ve ever owned. Really hope Micca fixes the issue in a product revision.

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That sucks! Must be internally grounded for crap. Who doesnt ground the shell in this day and age?

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is that the G2, the thin one? Zeos has one of those. Its a DAC/AMP for 100$ How does it sound?

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I don’t know why but sometimes I’m a static shock machine, lol. Just unplug it from everything for a while, and it should be ok after that.

  • My recording interface is enclosed in metal. I already touched it, static shock, and it shut down. Had to wait a bit, power it powered it off/on once or twice, and everything was fine after.

  • My Logitech G27 gaming wheel shut down when I touched the metal part of the shifter. Unplugged it from the PS3, plugged it back in, still works.

Also unwittingly gave my poor cat a lot of static shocks when touching his ears or nose, lol.

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Do you have low humidity in your house?

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The OriGain is a speaker amp, the OriGen G2 is a headphone DAC/AMP.

I just started using my OriGain, hope this does not happen to me…