I just hope your speakers are OK ? If they are and assuming your amp is not plugged in, first, turn your amp off with the amp's power button if you can while the amp is unplugged. 2. turn your preamp on and put the volume at low setting, say around the 8 o'clock setting. 3. turn your tuner on a station or get your CD player playing with a CD in it. 4. plug your amp back in the wall and turn it on. This is the way I would do it. Don't forget with lightening storms we all lose power sometimes and the equipment gets turned off because of a storm. In this situation I always unplug everything until the storm is over.
Unplugging amp while it is still on, damage?
Last night I was moving some things around and forgot that I had left my amp on, I unplugged the power cable. At the time I didnt notice what had happened. But I realized when I plugged it back in! Two very loud thumps to my speakers, I looked to my amp and to my horror finally realized that it was on. Everything else was turned off mind you.
Did this damage anything? How can I check?
Did this damage anything? How can I check?