smoked speakers

[judgemint]

I just received a new(old stereo) technics su-g91 It came with a couple of speakers bookshelf 30 watt 8 ohms. when I turned it up a bit one speaker quit working I removed the back plug where the wires go and it was smoking. I hooked up another speaker I had and then the same thing happened to the other speaker. I was under the assumption that these speakers where the originals. I scince found out that this amp puts out 135 watts per channel, was this to much for these speakers?? I have found some pioneer bookshelf speakersrated at 60 watts 8 ohm will these work with this amp? I'm scared to hook up a new set of speakers thinking that they will also go up in smoke. Is there a way to run a fuse in the speaker wire to prevent this sort of thing from happinning?? Also I found some cerin vegas on Ebay bookshelf units rated at 125 watts for 70.00. I want to go with small speakers because I use this at work on my toolbox

 

[highfihoney]

Dude if your seeing smoke there is a big problem & chances are that its not in the speakers & not from having too much power,my guess would be that there is a problem within the reciever & the speaker terminals on the reciever are passing voltage through them.

Try this,take the speaker grill off a working speaker then turn on the reciever at a very low volume all the while watching the woofer,if the woofer extends or pushes out your reciever is passing voltage to the speaker & will need to be serviced.

 

[Seth=L]

If you do anymore testing with speakers, do it with throw away speakers that you don't care about. As Highfihoney said, the amplifier doesn't have to much power for the speakers, but rather that the speakers had a problem or there is a voltage problem.