Yup... 120Hz hum even though the amplifier is powered by switching supplies... A simple knot fixed most of it...
C'mon - where have you hidden the op-amps?A simple knot fixed most of it...
I took apart a flat screen TV (scavenger hunt) and saw that the mains power lead was looped once through a ferrite cylinder. I did some internet sleuthing and found out that this was a ground loop breaker scheme for eliminating hum. I took it out and used in my preamplifier.
Does it work? Well there's no hum or ground loops. I've made it a point to grab these out of any flat screen I see in the electronic recycle dumpster. I also saw where Mouser and Digi-Key sell these.
Is that cable from a turntable?Yup... 120Hz hum even though the amplifier is powered by switching supplies... A simple knot fixed most of it...
Never be afraid to try the cheap solution first LMAO.
It's just simple loop pickup.Yes, it's a turntable. Yes the green clip is the ground.
I do know there is a lot of stray power interference in here. AM radio is useless, the entire dial is 60/120Hz.
I almost feel like winging common mode toroidal chokes for them or as mentioned, using ferrite. Still, the hum problem is about 95% gone, and it appears to be somewhat inductive. Moving my DAC several feet away further reduced the hum (it has 3 power transformers in it).
I guess it could be RF. An older design would pick up 98.1MHz FM through the turntable cabling. I guess it was a kind of slope detector.
When I set up my turntable, everything went without a hitch!Yes, it's a turntable. Yes the green clip is the ground.
Accidentally picking up broadcast VHF is not too difficult, although also not too difficult to filter it away. What is difficult to do accidentally is to slope detect it. Something in your system must have been resonating near 98.1MHz - maybe a cable?kodabmx said:I guess it could be RF. An older design would pick up 98.1MHz FM through the turntable cabling. I guess it was a kind of slope detector.