how did this happen?


yesterday i finished playing a record, and went to lift it up of the platter. as i was doing this, i seemed to feel a static like charge. it didn't seem like much at the time, but within a few seconds i got a buzzing from my amp, and the warning light went on. i quickly turned it off. when i turned it back on, i got only very tinny sound from my speakers. i switched out the amp and put another one in it's place, and got the same sound, leading me to believe it was my speakers that were damaged. i then noticed i could smell a burning type smell from both speakers port holes. so it would seem that i did fry something, probably the woofer. i'm mystified as to how this could have happened. could a static charge from my turntable do this?

it's doubly frustrating because this happened to a temporary pair of speakers that were filling in for my primary's, which are being repaired after being fried in an electrical storm 6 weeks ago.

any thoughts/comments appreciated.
sberger

Showing 1 response by newbee

Sounds like you passed some DC from your phono stage thru your amp to your speakers. Not to sound grim but when this last happened to me (for different reasons) I not only fried the speakers I took out some resistors etc in a SS amp which wasn't protected. Best check out your phono preamp for DC leakage and, in the future when changing records or lowering tone arm onto the record etc, put your integrated into mute so no signal passes thru the amp to your speakers.