UGH!
I thought my Music Hall a15.2 amp died, so I picked up a new amp (which I was planning on doing anyway, so I didn't waste any money).
The original trouble with the Music Hall was that I was getting distorted audio on all inputs in both channels. This lead me to believe the amp shit the bed since it was on all inputs and both channels.
So the new amp arrived today. Hooked it up...same exact problem. I guess that is good news that I don't need to fix the old one.
One would assume that blowing both speakers at the same time isn't likely (but possible). I don't have any other speakers to swap out so that is hard to test. Same deal with the speaker wires. Not much of a chance of BOTH wires being damaged at the same time.
Only other thing I can think of is a power issue in my house. Going to test that out now. I'll grab an extension cord and run everything to another outlet.
My house isn't super old (1985), so I'm not worried about some sort of ancient wiring.
Any other things I should check if the power isn't the issue?
UPDATE: Unplugged the amp from the previous outlet and plugged it directly into to another one. Trouble gone.
Both the amp and my turntable were plugged into a 2 port surge protector on the original outlet. Thought that the surge protector might be dead. Plugged the amp into that (in the new outlet). Still worked fine.
Next I checked the original outlet itself by plugging the amp into it with no surge protector. Works fine.
Put everything back together with the same surge protector in the original outlet. Everything works fine.
Must have been gremlins.
Looks like I'll have a 50W amp to put in the Yard Sale soon. Going to get it a full test before I get rid of it though.