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Is My System Toast?

The electricity in my town went out the other day for a short time. My wife was in the living room where my stereo system is. The amp is a Bel Canto eVO2i and a pair of Quad 12L2 speakers. She told me that when the power came back on that the left speaker crackled and smoked a little. When I looked, it had a constant low but discernible hum. I tried the speakers and they were dead. I switched the amp input to my CD player (which had been completely powered down) and there was no sound. Are the speakers and amp pretty much gone? Is it worth having the amp looked at for possible repair?

masswineguy
elliottbnewcombjr
7,869 posts
 

That amp has a main fuse, just above the power cord entry, it's specs are written adjacent to it. check it, hopefully it protected it.

CD player, even off, could be damaged, probably does not have a fuse, but check it somehow.

Speakers: I don't know about Quads, others?????

secretguy
1,997 posts
 

Not audio related , but... When our power was restored after a hurricane, it fried the electronics on my stove. (Who knew gas stoves had fragile electronics?)

So I imagine your amp/speakers might have been damaged. I hope the fuses protected everything. Good luck.

gdaddy1
541 posts
 

Did you use a surge protector? Smoke coming out of the speakers means the voice coil got as hot as your toaster. Hence they are toast.

deep_333
2,480 posts
 

When you plug things directly into the wall in hot pursuit of...."dynamics" n all... you may end up with no gear left, no music...

Try to plug things into a good power conditioner w/protection features enabled.

 

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