jea48 said:
I have had instances when a power amp was left powered up and the preamp was turned off. There was not any hum/buzz coming from the speakers. Of course I have never owned a 300 watt per channel amp either.
Not relevant; different components. And chances are those preamps had 3-wire power cords, as opposed to the OP's AVR (see the comments in my first post of today about "floating").
Hi Al,
The safety equipment ground would not have any relevance as its' purpose is to provide a low resistive path for ground fault current to return to the source.
Two things happened immediately when the Marantz was connected to the Adcom by a wire IC.
The Signal ground of the Adcom was extended through the IC to the chassis/signal ground of the Marantz.
Second, assuming the signal ground of the Adcom is connected to the chassis of the Adcom then the safety equipment ground is connected to the Marantz chassis as well.
Jim