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Interesting anomaly with room ionizer and OTLs

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Can someone explain what's going on here? So far I'm not alarmed. I have a negative ionizer beside my listening position 13ft. away from my Acoustat Servo OTLs. Every once in a while I'll hear a 'snap' out of the ionizer, obviously a discharge of build-up grounding to the fan it's sitting on. However it appears to cause a couple of clicks in one of the amps. They are on separate circuits. It sounds like the relay in the amp is clicking. weird.