well I have an update on this amplifier, I replaced the damaged parts with the new ones I bought and went to test out my work and the dumb thing smoked my brand new parts!
Which means there's still something wrong with this amplifier that's causing those transistors and resistors to get smoked, and the weird part is that it smoked those parts not even 2 seconds after I turned on the power switch, so any ideas as to what could be wrong with this amplifier?
Is there anything in particular that these old Luxman amplifiers were notorious for as far as failing parts goes that I should look for?
Any help would be appreciated.
Also as a side note, the power supply in this amplifier does have a protection relay in it but for some reason or another that part of it isn't working (which is why these parts are getting smoked right away) its acting almost as if someone had bypassed that part of the amplifer's power supply circuit, which may be why this amplifier got smoked in the first place.