why would my speakers hum? i just hooked up a set of speaker that hum. i've hooked up three different pair of speakers to the same system and never heard anything. any help?
i have tried different outlets. i have not grounded to a specific point. i don't know about sensitivity between the pairs. the hum is only heard when nothing is playing.
Temporary float the ground on your amp PC with a cheater plug. If the hum goes away it's a ground loop. It could just be your cables too. If your IC's are unshielded and you've been moving gear around, unplugging cables, you might just be picking up noise. Pull out your cables and reconnect everything and keep cables clear from each other as best as possible. Keep your PC's clear from your SC's as well.
"Because you are trying to play music to songs they don’t know the words to..."
I almost swallowed my gum laughing at that one!
Seriously though, speakers don't hum it is the signal feeding into the speakers. As has been mentioned it is usually something connected to a cable/ satellite system.
Is it possible that these speakers have been wired accidentally in reverse polarity? And I mean, internally or externally by yourself? Try flipping the Positive/Negative Poles around on the speaker cables.
Another option you can play with would be to try varing the speaker cable length between the Amp and Speaker and see if the noise goes away.
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