On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 17:49 -0500, Mark Lanctot wrote:
> This is called a ground loop.

Ground loops are fairly frequent. Sometimes they can be fixed
easily, others are very hard to impossible to fix.

>  As a last  resort, you can connect the two components' cases 
> together using speaker wire.

Altho sometimes you need very heavy speaker wire, maybe 4-ought :-)

The problem is so common that pro-audio stores sell isolation
transformers. But good transformers are expensive, so that
is usually not a good solution for a low buck, temporary problem.

-- 
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html


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