Static can do a lot of damage. If your pre-amp gets muted then you are lucky. The opposite can happen where the pre goes to full volume. Yes, it happened twice. When you are not ready for this, which is never, you better have an extra pair of underwear ready. That goes for the whole family too! My wife was putting up Christmas decorations on the tree and standing on a ladder. That pre amp went up for sale to someone in a highly humid part of the world. It has not happened since. A properly installed humidifier helps but in Tuscon you might just be wasting water. The humidity in the house when the problem occured was 23% and we were shcoking everthing we touched. When the humidity is in the 30's and higher in the house the static drops drastically. The type of clothes and shoes you wear increase the chances of building up static for sure.
I have sprayed static guard on a cloth and wiped my ic's, power cords and equipment down too. I did this with the last pre but maybe not often enough.
I have sprayed static guard on a cloth and wiped my ic's, power cords and equipment down too. I did this with the last pre but maybe not often enough.