buzzing from speakers


Recently picked up some used gear to assemble a decent, little condo system.

Recently noticed buzzing coming from the speakers when no music is being played. Thought it was speaker cable picking up hum from all the other cables strewn behind the wall unit, but after testing, that is not the case.

I'm concerned that the static electricity in my apartment may have damaged my amp somehow. I notice that almost every time i touch my equipment, i get a mild shock (because of the dry air in my condo coupled w/ carpet).

Could this have somehow damaged my amp /created this audible hum? I never noticed the hum in the past when i first picked up the amp, so i'm not sure if the problem has been there then entire time or if it's new.

Any thoughts?
loose
Do you have anything connected to the amp that is also connected to your Cable-TV box? If so, disconnect it and see if it goes away and report back.
you know, I just might have something from the cable box still connected...I'm going to disconnect it when i get home after work and report back. (I've had this problem in the past at my old place...for some reason, i didn't think of it this time).

But my real concern is that I've somehow damaged the amp w/ static electricity.

Is this even possible? I know that one can blow out computer boards w/ static electricity, but i'm not 100% certain on whether or not it can damage amps.

...and all this JUST when i was getting my system to finally start sounding halfway decent. arrgh
I highly doubt you've damaged anything - hopefully it will stop once you disconnect the cable.
If you don't have anything damaged now you will. Why not to use portable humidifier?