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I have a system which is all Marantz. Whenever I switched it on at the wall plug all units would go straight to 'power on' but the tuner stayed on 'standby' and had to be turned on manually.

I recently took the system apart and relocated it. Now when I switch it on at the wall plug all units including the tuner switch straight on (power on) but now the cd player stays on 'standby' and has to be turned on manually!!!!

It's a total mystery. The helpful people at Sevenoaks Sound and Vision couldn't help at all. Does any body have any idea why this is happening?

 

[Anonymous]

Thats well strange, havn't got a clue what is going on there my friend!

 

[chebby]

Does it remember what 'state' it was in before switching off at mains? (ie. If in standby it powers up in standby, and if in full 'powered on' mode when unplugged, it comes up fully powered on.)

 

[SonofSun]

Sounds to me like the cd player and tuner are on strike. There's seems to be a lot of it about these days.

It will probably clear up after the election.

Or

Maybe we have a skynet situation here, and parts of your system have become self aware.

Hammer on standby, I think!

 

[Anonymous]

If you switch everything to standby, then when you switch the wall plugs off and on they all come back as standby. However if they're all kept on 'power on' then when you switch the wall plugs off and on they all come back as 'power on' but the cd player is on standby. Complete mystery!

 

[chebby]

garageland:If you switch everything to standby, then when you switch the wall plugs off and on they all come back as standby. However if they're all kept on 'power on' then when you switch the wall plugs off and on they all come back as 'power on' but the cd player is on standby. Complete mystery!

Maybe it is designed like this to avoid those situations when a CD is loaded, and the amp is turned up, and you get a power cut in the middle of the night and the CD player starts playing the loaded disk automatically when the power returns.

This happened to me once during the 1987 storm. We had a brief power outage and I was awoken by the hifi downstairs playing a CD at full tilt followed by the power going off again/coming on again and playing CD again etc.

I think all hifi components should all be designed to come up in 'standby only' as a default after a power off/on or power outage. Otherwise (if you were on holiday and left the hifi volume up by mistake say) your neighbours could be subjected to a whole CD at 2am or even non-stop loud music from the tuner after a power blip.

Also anything with a motorised (or logic controlled) volume control should default to zero when power is resumed.