My tube amp power supply is buzzing away Help


My tube amp - Mcalister Audio has an outboard power supply that buzzes quite loud. Not through the speakers, but the unit itself makes a buzzing noise I can hear 15 feet back - very obvious.

I have read there is some material you can buy to place under the transformer to help. The transformer does not seem well mounted - kind of lose. Can anyone tell me the name of the anti-vibration stuff and where to buy it. I think I am going to tweak it before calling the manu to replace.

Thanks,

Bill
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Showing 1 response by sugarbrie

The hum is probably from too much DC in the power line (DC Offset). Blame your power company. While you can issolate the hum with "anti-vibration stuff"; fixing the power is the real solution.

The various power regeneration, balanced power, power issolation devices that use their own transformers to produce clean power will probably do the trick. However, the cheaper ones might hum themselves since they'll be getting the same lousy outside power (LOL!!).

Never tried the PSA Hum Buster, but I assume it works.

Power "conditioning" or "filtering" will not work.