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Power Up the System - What Do You Do?

I leave my system in idle when not in-use. I only kill the power when I know bad storm is comming or if I am out of town for few days. I have always disconnected my speaker cables before I start it back up and re-connected after system is completly powered up. This way the speakers don't get popped and eventually could cause damage. I am just curious how you start up your system.

Thanks.
sd2005gt

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sd2005gt OP
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Fatparrot, I have been doing it this way for years without any problem. Of cause you have to be very careful not to let the negative and positive on the speaker cables touch each other or you will have a short either on the amp or on the speakers.
sd2005gt OP
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My system never popped the speakers. As a matter of fact, I have never tried to powered up the system with speakers connected so I don't really know. I have Krell Amp, 400 watt per channel pushing Wilson Audio Sophia. I learned this technique from Hi End Audio in Atlanta that used to sell only Krell Electronics. During A/B test between two set of speakers - priced over $20K. The dealer switched out the cables without powered down the system. He told me there is tremendous surge of force into the speakers when flipping the amp switch of high current amplifier that can damage speakers.
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