Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades
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My step-up is quite sensitive to the WIFI signal, the Io does not pick-up anything !
From my amateur radio days I believe that RFI that sounds on an AM radio (a common way to check for RFI) like a chainsaw is worrisome for audio.
I agree!
My landscaper just this moment told me there is a river of water flooding down the side of my house, so I must have a burst pipe or something.
can you surround the RFI polluting circuit with a faraday cage. i think they have small ones.
maybe if you inquire with the manufacturer of the air conditioning control circuit they might have a suggestion. best to control it at the source. you will never know what else it might be affecting.
Do you still have an analogue telephone line? Two wires connected to a far phone station?
I also just discovered that the ceiling lights in the listening room, when on, generate huge RFI.
Yes! It has taken some effort to keep two of those lines. It is called POTS -- plain old telephone service.
The cell service in the Atlas Mountains, in Morocco, in Africa, is much better than the cell service in Beverly Hills. A landline is essential, as far as I'm concerned.
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This is a large air conditioning unit mounted inside the house. It is too big to surround with a Faraday cage. But I definitely will inquire at some point to see if the manufacturer has an idea as to how to reduce the RFI.
All this newly discovered RFI definitely inclines me to use balanced interconnects.
Is a landline with a Cordless phone Ron?
Modern HVAC units vary... however, many send data down what was the thermostat control wires and then there is the 24v for the ac unit control relay it's self.. You may have the low voltage control wires for the thermostat or ac unit bundled with the telephone line in a utility room or behind walls the noise may be coupling from those wires in close proximity. You also have to consider if its the motor of the air handler ( furnace if you have one in your California latitude- may be a heat pump ) or compressor or condensor fan. A good HVAC tech can isolate the operation of these parts to narrow it down.
Lastly it may be airborne and transmitting to the receiver of the phone if it is wireless.
Its never easy with a major reno... best of luck.
Meh. I can’t validate that thought at all.
Your phone is at the end of a loop. Interconnects with electronics naturally reject a lot more than an antenna.
Thank you for your advice and kind words.
In my experience those cordless phones are crap. For land-lines I use hard-wired Polycom office telephones.
It turns out that when the main water line was installed below ground it was not installed properly, and the installer bent the pipe to make it fit. The pipe cracked at this weakened point.
When the plumber just cut out the cracked section of the pipe one can see that the pipe was literally flattened and no longer round.
At least normal thickness, good quality copper pipe was installed originally.
Ron, the apparently speedy resolution hopefully means it's not too severe an issue and behind you already. sure hope so.
maybe fortunate it happened now when you have these crews handy and responsive.
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