Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 v7 ucbtopaz-1.8; site ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucbtopaz!newton2 From: newton2@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Background Noise in Stereo Message-ID: <526@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 02:22:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.526 Posted: Mon Aug 13 02:22:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 19:23:04 EDT References: <3984@fortune.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Calif., Berkeley CA USA Lines: 13 My first thought is that you're being victimized by conducted RFI via the power line or line cord of your stereo. This is suggested by the persistence of symptoms regardless of which source is selected, and appears virtually confirmed by your own discovery of the solution- re-orient (not necessarily in an Eastern direction :->) the power cord, bunch it up, stretch it out or the like. Wrap it in aluminum foil; ground the foil; unground the foil. Judging from your net address, you probably are not a namby-pamby risk-aversive sort, so pluck up your entrepreneurial courage and try grounding some prominet metal part of your system to the AC power ground. Your AC isn't grounded in any obvious way? Your entry-level stereo doesn't have any metal parts? Oh. Well, you might make a tape of the Russky-babble and take it to your local NSA office- maybe they'd like to rid the either of the interference. ;