power transgormer blown, gear okay?

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Sage Osaka

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This is a re post to my thread on head-fi just thought I'd get as many opinions as possible.


So today I was doing some listening on my PC, my setup is usb -> aune t1 -> hd650. Out of nowhere i hear a pretty loud *boom* and a second or two later all the power cuts to the house. I take the headphones off and as I'm taking them off I'm pretty sure I hear a bit of static coming through them so I hastily unplug them from the T1. Later on tonight I come home to a bunch of people from the power company directly outside my house hoisting a new transformer into the large hole in the front yard and the guy tells me that the transformer had blown.

My question is, with an outage such as this, and with the possible static that I thought I had heard; is there any real danger to my audio equipment? I'm giving them a very scrutinizing listen at the moment and they still sound good to me but I don't want to be psyching myself out. My pc, and my amp both are connected to a surge protector, but not a battery backup. Anyone with electrical knowledge care to chime in I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks in advance to any help :D
 
The distortion appeared when the power caps drained & the amp didn't have enough voltage. Ask anyone who used to have an Adom GFA-555.
 
If it still works and you heard no booms and saw/smelled no smoke from YOUR equipment, then you're fine. Not sure what you're using for power protection, but if you're using some $6.99 Wal-mart "surge protector," then you should upgrade to a Panamax or Furman or APC or whatever surge protector, or a nice UPS. A cheap UPS will have very poor quality surge protection, such as Cyberpower's transformerless stuff, APC BackUPS (instead of SmartUPS), etc. So don't rely on one of those. Get the Dell/Eaton Powerware UPS that RefurbUPS has if you really want to be safe.
 
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