System feedback coming thru speakers.....help


I just hooked up my system that I have been building for several months and I am getting some feedback out of the speakers. I ended up hooking up a different speaker and it still is doing the same thing. The speakers are all static-ie and the signal seems weak. Here is my system:
Sonograph SA 400 amp
CJ PV 11 with phono
Thorens TD 160 turntable
Hales T 3 speakers
Nakamichi dragon tape deck
Panasonic DVD S 53 as cd source (for now).
Just had a pair of audio quest bi wire speaker cables made today.

Any ideas?
Additional note: I am in a really old house......like late 1800's. Old wiring, two prong, pre grounding even. Could it be:
Line noise?
Cables touching behind my system?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

Jason
jdvorak
By any chance have some or all of the fuses that have blown been Radio Shack "slow blow" fuses? I've seen a number of posts here in the past indicating that those fuses often tend to act more like "fast blows" than "slow blows."

Regards,
-- Al
When some tube equipment powers up, it draws quite a lot of power. Is it possible w v. old electrical system, that this is causing power surges, which may be blowing fuses? I am assuming that the CJ tech gave you the proper fuse values...but you never know. Or maybe he just assumed you had the manual that gave you the proper values. I suppose its also possible that someone else put wrong fuse values in and that's why those fuses were blown in the first place...I'm assuming from your OP that you recently acquired the amp and had just put it into service when the problem developed.