Furman solves ground loop issue?


I have a serious ground loop problem with my analog side. Digital is dead quiet.
Loud hum comes from the speakers when analog input is turned on.
Becomes louder when I increase gain.
A salesman said that if I plug my analog components into a Furman PL-PLUS C - 15A w/Voltmeter 
this would solve the problem.

Have tried all the usual methods-cheater plugs, transformers, using another circuit, grounding with copper wire, switching interconnects, but nothing works.
Something is going on between the pre and the phono stage. Tried a different make phono stage and the problem is still there.
Have spoken with people with all brands involved and nobody could help me.

Anybody have any experience with this product? Would it solve this hum problem?

Thank you
roxy1927
Many things can cause hum in an audio system - it's not always a ground loop. What do you mean when you say the problem is only with analog? Do you mean only the phono stage, or any analog input?
It would be helpful if you tell us more about the equipment you are using.
Is this a new problem with existing equipment, or is the gear new to you?

 Is your turntable grounded to your phono preamp? If so, have you tried moving the wire? Disconnecting it? Without knowing the brand or model of your phono preamp and table it is difficult to make suggestions. 

 I don't think a Furman power conditioner is going to solve your problem.


I hope your interconnect cables are well shielded and designed for phono signal, not just regular interconnects. Also i hope your tonearm is grounded, you can try additional wire with stripped ends (one to you phono ground input, another stripped end to your tonearm metal part) to check if the hum is gone or not.  
I had a vicious ground loop in a system that used a residential cable modem with an incoming coaxial connection. The cable modem was connected to the same circuit as my home theater preamp and self powered speakers. I tried disconnecting one signal cable at a time in the system until I isolated it to the coaxial cable entering the apartment. So I drove to Fry’s, bought a coaxial grounding block and ran a ground wire from the block to the ground on a wall outlet. Boom, ground loop was silenced. It turns out that cable tv/internet companies love to run coax signals extremely hot to prevent loss, especially in apartment and condo complexes.

Later, a different system with a headphone amplifier connected to a DAC with a pair of XLR cables in a balanced differential setup was getting horrendous ground hum. It only occurred when either of the two (or both) was connected to power AND to each other via the balanced connection, right channel, left channel or both. Neither hummed on its own. On the advice of an old school audio repairman who was factory authorized by brands like Luxman, McIntosh, Mark Levinson, etc, I snapped both ground pins off the (removable) power cables. Hum gone instantly. (I don’t recommend this unless you know what you’re doing and what the source of your hum is. Another option would be to put a very nice isolation transformer inline in the signal path; breaking the XLR ground.)

As you can see, hum can come from many different kinds of ground faults in a complex audio setup!