"Fred Mann" wrote in message
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Hello,
I have speakers all over my house, wired to two seperate receivers . One
speaker is wired to both receivers. This has not caused a problem for
years.
I usually remember to turn one receiver off before turning the other one
on.
But occasionally, I have forgotten to do this -- also no problem. Until
last
night, that is. I powered up my second receiver while the first one was
still on and played some music through it and burned up something in the
first receiver. It started making a hum in the speakers and clearly
smelled
of burning electronics. So I turned it off. When I got back to receiver
one,
it too was non-responsive on both sets of speakers. It was still powered
on
but nothing will come out of the speakers now. Not even through the
headphones. I took the top off and tested the three fuses that I could see
with a volt meter. All worked fine.
So ... is there anything obvious I should check, or should I just buy a
new
one?
I hope I provided enough info.



If the fuses are ok then you blew the outputs. Fixable if they're decent
recievers, but probably not worth it if they're worth $100 or so.

Next time install some sort of switch on the output so that only one
reciever can be connected to the speakers at a time. I'm really surprised
you didn't blow up one or both amps sooner, even if one was turned off.