A quick trick to try and see if this is a ground loop through your cable (almost definately is) is to hook up two of those old adapters that convert from 300 ohm antenna wire to 75 ohm f connector (you know, the ones that came w/VCRs. hook them up to each other back to back, so that you can hook up coax to each end of the pair and place them in line btwn the TV and the cable coming in. you should get a significant reduction in hum. Then go for the jensen or the mondial magic, or even the $0 rat shack cable isolating transformer and you should be good to go.
Serious hum problem. Help
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I just moved, and hooked up my system to my housemate's television. The TV gets its cable signal directly from outside- ie through an RF cable, no cable box. Whenever I plug the RF cable into the TV, the hum is awful. Changing the input on the amp or switching cables out makes no difference. I bought a new, shielding RF cable, but it didn't help at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I just moved, and hooked up my system to my housemate's television. The TV gets its cable signal directly from outside- ie through an RF cable, no cable box. Whenever I plug the RF cable into the TV, the hum is awful. Changing the input on the amp or switching cables out makes no difference. I bought a new, shielding RF cable, but it didn't help at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks!