Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
Georgina, Just to be clear, I don't intend on moving their wires. The routing of my DSL line was something they do if requested rather than making it available to all phone jacks. They also put in a higher quality cable to carry the DSL/phone signal and they did that to partly address my prob

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, I advised complaining not just because it is likely to be cheaper for you as the end user. But depending upon your contract. Such equipment is the property of those who provide you with the service. They are providing you with a substandard service and they are in breach of their contrac

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
I am already all filtered up in terms of DSL. For one thing, to try to avoid this very problem, my DSL line is separated from my phone lines at the box outside the house, and the DSL line runs to my modem. However, to play it safe, I did put filters on the phone line to be extra careful. I su

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
Those are good suggestions and I am going to do just that. I am a little suspicious of my DSL modem because there are no chokes on the cord to the AC adapter. It is strange. If I put an AM radio near the heavy ground wire that is connected from the circuit breaker box to the water pipe where

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, Have you considered complaining and asking them to supply some filters? Regards, > On 1 Aug 2020, at 18:04, Steve Jacobson wrote: > > Tom, > > Agreed completely. I had a sudden increase perhaps a month ago in the > interference I am getting on the AM band from my DSL service. The p

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Geoff Eden
It is back interference from the modern switching power supplies. We used to use Transformers to render different voltages for the radio/television etc., but since the early 90s, we use fancy transistors to chop up the line voltage into little time segments to get lower voltage. The noise we get

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, It wouldn't hurt getting a couple of those ferrite chokes and putting them on the lines. If on a power line put it on the cord as close as possible to the power source. You may have noticed that the more expensive USB cables, audio lease and power supplies will have a ferrite choke on th

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
Tom, Agreed completely. I had a sudden increase perhaps a month ago in the interference I am getting on the AM band from my DSL service. The phone company must have changed something either with the phone lines outside or with the DSL settings. While I know there is always DSl interference a

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Tom Kaufman
Steve and list: It's amazing to think of just how many things we have around the house that generate noise; things that we "have" to have to help us function, such as our phones (cordless or otherwise) chargers, modems...etc.! My cable modem really reeks habic with my AM radio; my stereo system i

Re: [all-audio] Maybe for this group or if not...where

2020-08-01 Thread Steve Jacobson
Georgina, If I take my cordless phone and put it near an AM radio, I find that it generates a good bit of digital noise across the entire AM band, but there are oscillations that occur here and there that are stronger than the general noise. I would guess that on his system, one of those stron