Will doing this blow my speakers?


Hi, I'm trying to chase down the source of a 60 cycle hum.

It was suggested to me to power up my monoblocs as follows: no to connecting any preamp to amp cables; and yes to connecting the amp to the speakers via speaker cables.

Will this blow up my speakers without any signal coming into the amp? I've been trained by other audiokooks to never power up the amp connected to the speakers without a signal/load connected to the amp inputs.

Thanks for your help, Jeff
jj2468

Showing 1 response by cldinsmore

I had an AC hum problem in my stereo system and it ended up being the cable feed from my local TV cable provider. The fix was a filter where the cable hooked up to the digital cable box. Just thought I would mention this to you as I never considered this as a possible source.