OT: Fixing Listening Room Hum with a Ceiling Fan Cap

Living in a 20 year old home has disadvantages, if you happen to be the owner when the appliances all start to fail together.  

I was pretty sure this was the case with my ceiling fans.  Besides humming loudly one failed to start without pushing.  End of the line I thought. 

I was wrong, the humming and low torque were caused by degraded motor capacitors.  In our world metalized polypropelyne capacitors almost never fail, especially in a speaker crossover, but I guess the continuous use in series with an AC current wears these out early.

I had always thought that a humming ceiling fan was normal for an old fan.  I was wrong, it's not.  Replaced my caps and my listening room is much quieter!