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

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

Thanks Drew, I do not think this is a "problem" though, as I have stated in reply to another, that if I thought it was I would contact Marv. I was just curious as to the how, I was under the impression this unit was off and not stand by, it appears that my assumption was wrong; this does not bother me in any way.

Also, I know nothing of the inner workings of these r audio in general, but I don't see where it would be any different using balanced IC's, either it's sending a signal or not. Try cranking it up sometime. I have owned mine for over a year and have never noticed it until the other day.

The difference with a tuner vs. CD (etc.) is that a signal is always there, in the air that is and if it's in standby mode, it appears it's still pulling it in.