Well, I guess I spoke too soon...

I had been running the new amp for about 2 hours and was listening in the adjacent room. I smelled something buring and went back into the theater to find out the new speaker was smoking. I ran over and turned the receiver off and the speaker started "hissing". I unplugged the new speaker as quickly as I could and thhe back plate was red hot. It's still pretty hot after about 20 mins. It smells really bad, like burning electronics and plastic... My whole basement smells like that now.

I called Axiom and J.C. answered. He said to send it back for another one, but at this point I don't think I want to anymore. This scared the heck out of me, and could have started a fire... I neeed some time to calm down but right now I am very scared and very angry. The though of taking this speaker apart again just doesn't sit well with me.

I'm going to step away for a bit to calm down.

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