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HELP My whole system all powers up but NO SOUND

Good morning everyone!!
Last night when i came home,my first thing in my mind is to listen to my system.So,i power up everything and when it's all warmed up ,i start playing my cd and heard nothing.I checked all the fuse and looks all good and no sign of burned fuse?BTW,my system is set up for "BIAMPING ".Tube monoblock driving the upper panel of my speaker (Martin Logan/Aerius) and a solid state amp to power the bottom side ( woofer ).As i said it's all power up but not getting any sound at all in my ML.I did connected another speaker and no sound still.What the heck is happening in my system? Btw,i did even checked the preamp fuse and it looks good and ofcourse i can see it powers up or light's on. I am thinking to open it up last night to check my 12ax7 tubes. is it possible it will be my preamp tubes??
Or the problem will be in the pre-amp??REmember both tube amps and solid state amps power are all ON and lights ON but still not getting any sound.I am at work right now and thinking a lot what really happened? I need all of your input and information so when i reach home hopefully i will enjoy my Friday night.Thank you all very much in advance!
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jameswei
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Have you checked the CD player? Maybe it has a mute switch or a volume control that somehow got turned down.

Some CD players have inputs for signal from other sources (digital or analog), and they have a selector switch to choose between internal CD versus the external source(s). If your CD player has this, be sure the check the source selector.

Is there some way to verify that the CD player is working? Maybe you could plug it into another system (e.g., possibly an iPod) to see if it is functioning (a la Swampwalker's suggestion).
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