Re: [H] Radio stations coming out of my home theater speakers

2018-01-06 Thread Julian Zottl
Lmao, you got away with that? I had digital and analog in my undergrad and masters in EE ;) The longer the cable, the more it’s going to pick up, definitely. That explains why the rears are picking up more. Well, if no other sources are hooked up, I can only think of two things: 1) power cable

Re: [H] Radio stations coming out of my home theater speakers

2018-01-06 Thread Brian Weeden
Hi Julian. This is why I stuck to the digital side of EE in college. RF is just damn black magic :) Yes. Disconnecting everything and it's gone. Reconnecting just the center channel, and there's no sound. But as soon as I add the L and R fronts, it's back, very faint. Adding in the side surrounds

Re: [H] Radio stations coming out of my home theater speakers

2018-01-06 Thread Winterlight
Have you tried hooking up another receiver just to determine if it is the receiver or the wiring. When you ran your speaker wires were they at least 12 inches away from power wires? At 08:45 AM 1/6/2018, you wrote: I know this isn't a computer question, but figured there might be some on

Re: [H] Radio stations coming out of my home theater speakers

2018-01-06 Thread Julian Zottl
Hey Brian, I take it the sound isn’t there when the speakers are not plugged in to the receiver? There could be lots of reasons for it unfortunately. I would try (I know it’s annoying) everything, then just plug in the F center speaker and turn the receiver on with nothing else connected. If

[H] Radio stations coming out of my home theater speakers

2018-01-06 Thread Brian Weeden
I know this isn't a computer question, but figured there might be some on the list who have some expertise that can help me figure out this pesky question. Two years ago we remodeled our basement, and I ran speaker cables for a 7.1 setup. I used good quality 14AWG CL2 cable, and HDMI for the