Adding a power trigger to an amp that doesn't have one

NOTE: I need to press a button on my amp or its remote to turn it on, it will not turn on just from the powering on a power socket.

What amplifier is it?

Leave it on.

- It will probably last many years longer.

- It won’t save much, if any, money off your power bill.

- If you’re worried about being "green", how much energy will it take to manufacture and ship a replacement amp because you burned up your old one several years earlier than it would have if you left it on?

For the unit I mentioned, you would leave the amplifier turned on and plugged into the DigiKey piece. As show in the description, there is a trigger located on the side of it that is activated by any small AC or DC voltage up to about 30V. You would connect your trigger out wire from your receiver to that port and when your receiver turns on, it would trigger power to turn on your amplifier. Your trigger out is probably 12vdc. 

Hey @ajones82,  sounds like you have the same problem that I had in this thread:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/question-about-cary-audio-slp-05-preamp

Check out my solution.  I use a combination of this emotive module with a IR controllable AC Socket.  Somehow I can't find the IR controlled AC Socket in eBay anymore, but I found this: 

https://inclusiveinc.org/products/infrared-ecu-110v-ac-wall-outlet-controller-with-remote

It seems to do the same thing.

In my case, it works perfectly.   Hope this works for you.

Cheers!

The problem is that almost all the amplifier with momentary Standby/On push button switch will only can put it into Standby if using AC mains switch, you still need to momentarily press the front panel button or use the remote to turn it on.