The speakers stopped working on my IMac. How do I turn them on again?

I updated some apps and since then, the sound stopped working on the IMac and the M-Audio speakers that are connected to it. They both worked before. The only thing I can figure I did was to update apps. Any other ideas for what went wrong?

I'm running Maverick. I did unplug the speakers, shut down the computer and waited 15 seconds, turned it on and waited 5 seconds before plugging the speakers back in. The sound of the computer coming on is there and there is static when I plug in the speakers.

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