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Curing ground loop hum with a power conditioner ?

I am using a cheater plug on my amp to cure a ground loop hum that is caused by my cable tv, I was wonder if adding a monster 5100 power conditioner and running my cable through it would cure my ground loop problem, I would also consider a ps audio 600 if that would be a better solution, any help on this would be apreciated, thanks
samski
gboren
143 posts
 
It probably won't help. My experience is that ground loops are very difficult to diagnose and eradicate. I have tried power conditioners, RF stoppers, cheater plugs, etc, and nothing works, other than finding the offending piece of equipment.

I admit that I am skeptical about the value of power conditioners in general. But I think (hope) that most would agree that, whatever good they do, they do not particularly help with ground hum.
pe3046
120 posts
 
I had the same problem and switched to the Monster HTS1000 and that did the trick. I did not even have to connect the amp or any of my other devices to the monster, only the cable connection. I returned the 1000 though because I actually wanted to connect my equipment and got the 2000 off ebay for $105. You can try the monster buy buying it at circuit city,best but, or goodguys where you can take it back and get some better of ebay or used. I also tried the mondial magic, but upon installation it did nothing for that system and reading the instructions states that it is only for properly grounded cable systems.

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kevyo
34 posts
 
I also had the same problem with the 60hz hum and the Monster Power Conditioner that I used got rid of the hum. I did not want to spend a lot of money and some cheaper power conditioners didn't work. The monster power conditioner did a great job
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