How can I still hear my tuner when it's off?

Audiopman,

It is a Fanfare FT-1A, which Marv Southcott left MD and started Fanfare, so the fact that both these brands do this shouldn't be surprising. Anyway, I wasn't really concerned of a defect or I would of just contacted Marv, I was just curious about the why's and wherefores.

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

can you hear the tuner on any other preamp setting. you might be getting an rf leak from one of your interconnects.
espceially if they are long and unsheilded. this has happend to me on long leads to the mono blocks.

i have never owned a magnum dyna. but i have own(ed) carver;mac;nad;harmon kardon tuners. when they are off...no sound.

fwiw

jim

Jvr, reread my initial post, I answered that question.

Any component that has a remote control ON/OFF is never off completely. If it were off completely, there would be no power to receive the ON command from the remote. They are really on Stand-by.

Hi Brian,

You and I own the same tuner. I have not experienced the same problem but I think I understand why it is occuring in your system. The on/off function is not pure in that the off function does not shut down the component. In the Fanfare operations manual it explains that that the unit is always receiving some power and that this helps in that whenever the unit is turned on it does not require a warm up period to operate at its glorious best. I use the balanced output connections and maybe that is why I do not experience noise from the preamp when I switch to the tuner source and it is turned off. It also may be that I have never cranked it up so loud with the tuner off to experience low tuner noise. I hope that was helpful.
Drew