Hello once more everyone. I bought a used 9VDC wall wart, and it puts out around 11.2V at around 300mA. This amount of power is causing my lm386n-1 IC's to become warm to the touch, and I didn't worry about it, until the sound quality began to change a little bit, so I tried to add some resistance to it but that did not change the voltage. So what is the simplest way to bring down the voltage to 9-10V besides a regulator, because I am trying to get this to be a cheap as possible yet still effective. Thank you again