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Voices coming through soundbar after I turn off tv

I hear voices!

Seriously, this sounds strange but about four times over the last couple months I’ve heard a conversation or a voice coming through my soundbar or tv 1-5 minutes after I’ve turned it off. Not voices from tv show but kind of like a brief part of someone’s conversation. The first time I was brushing my teeth and I heard about 3 seconds of a man and woman talking like possibly a phone conversation. Couldn’t make out what they were saying as the water was running. Another time I heard someone say "listen". A couple other times I heard something but couldn’t make it out.

This has coincided with my tv randomly turning on slower than normal and  having the cable menu for the channel come up with a snow picture for a couple seconds then an audio pop followed by the picture coming on.

I have a Sony 85 inch LCD thats less than 2 years old and a Sony Z9F soundbar that’s wired to the tv and a Sony bluetooth sub. I have a box from Xfinity cable. My audio rig is not connected to any of the av gear listed above.

I’m wondering ifsomebody’s bluetooth signal is synching with the soundbar but that’s only a guess. It’s weird that it only happens randomly shortly after I turn the system off.

I’ve had two techs from Xfinity come out and they couldn’t find anything wrong. They did remove an unnecessary splitter outside and my picture got better.

Anyone heard of something like this or have an idea how to get to the bottom of it?

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juanmanuelfangioii
958 posts
 

I had a Rega integrated that did that and it was sound coming through from my DAC.

Never figured it out, gave the Rega to a neighborhood kid though.

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spatialking
610 posts
 

If it is only the soundbar creating the problem, try this - Put a 0.00001 to 0.001uFd COG/NPO capacitor across the speaker terminals with a voltage rating of 100V or more.   You can get a one from DigiKey, Newark, or Mouser.  If it is a RF bleed in, that might just kill it.  If the soundbar is powered internally, then this trick won't work. 

vze2r8xz
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I hope you don't have a little blonde daughter named Carol-Anne, as this might speak to a more spiritual issue at hand.

audioquest4life
772 posts
 

Do you have a separate audio connection coming from the Xfinity box or other device such as Apple or Amazon TV going to the soundbar directly? This could potentially cause somewhat of a similar symptom as those devices are not turned off unless powered down. Alternatively, the system is picking up a stray signal from somewhere. Cell phone towers, cell phones, old school analog handheld wireless phones, baby monitors, Wii-fi video surveillance systems with microphone, wireless or Bluetooth doorbells with outdoor microphones, etc.  

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