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.
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Showing 1 response by steveaudio

As a couple of others mentioned, this sounds like a truly bad idea (to me). A lot of dealers will say almost anything to justify whatever they're doing at the time; I've seen audio salesmen destroy cartridges, power amps, etc. because of ignorance or carelessness. If you really enjoy doing this, go ahead, but if I were you I'd read Fatparrot's advice about 10,000 times before doing it again.......it's exactly the thing you shouldn't do--sooner or later your fingers will slip on the speaker cables or "something" while doing this & you will be a very sad guy........

>>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.>>