Paradigm Servo 15 picking up AM radio station


In my home theater rig, my Paradigm Servo 15v1 is picking up a local AM radio station. For those of you in the Chicago area, I finally figured out that it was AM, because I could make out the very distict voice of Doug Baffonne on AM 760, a local sports radio personality.

It isn't loud, and I can really only hear it if I put my ear next to the speaker, but it's annoying none the less. It also puts out a constant low level white noise, that again is only audioble with my ear next to the speaker. The sub has a function where it will automatically shut off when it doesn't detect a signal in a certain period of time. Because it is always getting a radio signal, it won't shut off unless I shut it off manually with the switch on the back.

I THINK the power cord I am using is shielded.

Any thoughts/suggestions?
mekong56

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So does it make an AM jock sound like an FM jock? Sorry. I have never heard of this but here are a few scenerios. If you have Directv or dish sometimes that can feed it to a household. Mine was in my cordeless phone. Possibly if you have Sat TV you might try disconnecting the power cord, coax,and phone connection from the DSS reciever and see if the "little voices in your sub" go away. If that is the case it is probably either feeding back through the a/c if they are plugged into the same circuit. If not then it is through the interconnect. If this proves to be the case
there is a filter that plugs into the telephone connection
and filters out the RFI. If not I am not sure what else I would look at, a sub is a crossover, amp and speaker, can't imagine how it could become a tuner. One other thought, if haven't tried disconnecting the IC and observing the loss of the AM sound, try that it. If so it may be in your processor, especially if it a receiver.