Humming Noise

Hi,

Before you decide your amp is defective, try these experiments:

1. turn both amps off. UNPLUG the amp that is not humming. Turn the "humming" amp on and see if it's still doing it. If not, then you need to "star ground."

2.
a. try switching interconnects at the amplifiers to see if the hum switches sides.
b. turn the humming unit off, remove the interconnect, turn it back on. If the hum is gone, the problem is not in the amp.

3. try phyically moving the amplifiers ( bad one to the position of the good one ) to see if the hum changes.

Best of luck,
Joe

The first step in this diagnosis is to disconnect all inputs, power back on, then check for the hum. If you still have it then try an AC polarity change &/or temporarily lift the ground with a cheater adapter. If all that fails then you do very likely have an actual problem. Get out your oscilloscope & check the AC ripple on your supply rails, comparing one amp to the other. Suspect the caps at that point if there are radical differences. It could also be a rectifier. Mod guru Andy Bartha can probably take care of this for you.
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try doing a search on hum and you'll see that it is most likely a ground loop - easily fixed.