Schiit Hel 2e
I know just off the title people are gonna tell me to just buy the gunnr but I don't have 230 quid lying around, I'm a broke college student, unfortunately.
Anyways, here's the issue:
Power outage hit my area while I'm out. Hel 2e is sitting on my desk powered on at the time. By the time I get home, power has come back on.
Windows does not recognize the hel 2e as an audio output. I restart the computer, and I can hear crackling in my headphones the whole time despite no input.
Windows still doesn't recognize.
I turn off the hel 2e and unplug everything. I let it sit for a few hours, then plug everything back in. Windows recognizes the device and the crackling noise is gone. Great.
This is not the first time this has happened to me.
I bought a surge protector because I thought that maybe the capacitors were getting overloaded when the power came back on.
Nope, didn't fix the problem.
A friend told me that maybe the brain wasn't shutting off completely because the dac leeched power off the 5v on the data side and that was causing the problem, so I should get a power blocker or a galvanic isolator.
Nope, neither worked either.
So now I'm coming to y'all:
What causes this issue in the first place, and how can I solve it permanently (keeping in mind I can't just replace the unit)?