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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
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 02:22:15 1984
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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.
;