McIntosh hum problem


Any of you MAC people own a MCD 751 CD Transport and MDA 700 D/A Converter combo? I do and both hum, wondered if any others with same problem? The converter hums louder and MAC gave me a new power transformer for it, but did not help. The hum is from the units themselves vs. speaker hum. Any way to reduce the hum. Any advice appreciated.
amwarwick

Showing 1 response by alexanderj

Are the Mac's on a dedicated circuit? If not you may want to look at whatever else is plugged into that circuit. Some dimmers and motorized devices sometimes can be culprits. Especially suspect would be anything with a high/low switch in it. I had a room humidifier with said high/low switch and it made my velodyne subwoofer amp hum in the low setting.

Try unplugging suspect devices to see if you can locate a source for the hum.