Klipsch Speakers - humming noise

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Klipsch Speakers - humming noise

Anyone have advice as to how to minimize or remove a steady humming coming from a Klipsch bass speaker? The Klipsch set consists of an amp and bass speaker in a black box connected to which are 5 smaller Klipsch speakers. The amp is connected to a G5 via fiber.

G5 2.3 dual, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2006 3:55 PM

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Answer 1

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Jul 24, 2006 1:26 PM in response to Paul Sturm

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86655

tip:
Clone that boot drive to a external drive. You can option boot from it, repair, recover files, even reverse clone. It will save your bacon one day.

Carbon Copy Cloner, Superduper, DejaVu, Retrospect. Whatever you use, just clone it. Preferably 2 clones if you can.

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Answer 2

Jul 24, 2006 10:19 PM in response to Paul Sturm

Shouldn't be a ground loop caused by the audio cable from the G5 to the speakers because you are using optical.

I would try either plugging in the power cable of the amp/speaker system into the same outlet/surge protector as the G5 (can help eliminate ground loops) and/or make sure that no audio wiring is touching any power cords.

Also, are there any fluorescent/halogen lamps near the G5 or the amp/receiver/sub?

The cloning is a good idea for data safety, but not at all relevant to your ground loop issue.

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