I just plugged in a travel ipod speaker unit into the wall and it started smoking?

Question

I have an ipod speaker unit, called "travel sound." It can be powered by batteries or be plugged into the wall. However, since it didn't come with a wall adapter, I searched my house for one that fit. Finally, I did find a wall adapter whose plug fit into the unit and the speaker unit powered on.
Within a minute, the unit started smoking, and I immediately unplugged.
Is it possible that, while there may be more than one kind of wall adapter that works for this, some may actually deliver too much power and destroy the unit? OR....is this just a really cheap, poorly designed piece of equipment?
(I am certain not much $ was spent on it)

Answer 1

While the wall adapter may have had the right connections, the real determining factor should have been voltage and current rating. There are as many different wall adapters as there are units that can use them. What you should have done is look at the voltage and current specifications for the ipod speaker unit and matched that to the adapter. It sounds like the adapter you used did not match the unit (I am guessing the adapter voltage output is too high) which is why your unit started smoking.

Answer 2

of course - you may plug audio equipment into ANY iPod. merely plug in any variety of audio equipment into the placement on suitable of the iPod the place you plug on your earphones and luxuriate in song externally.