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    Join Date: Mar 2013

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    Is your WiFi modem positioned anywhere near your amps perchance?
    Tubes are remarkably sensitive to WiFi emmisions.....a tube preamp I ran recently was placed near my modem and picked up all sorts of nasties.

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    Join Date: Jan 2019

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    Quote Originally Posted by sumday View Post
    Is your WiFi modem positioned anywhere near your amps perchance?
    Tubes are remarkably sensitive to WiFi emmisions.....a tube preamp I ran recently was placed near my modem and picked up all sorts of nasties.
    I did think that so turned the router off - no discernible difference.

    It’s about 10ft away from the amps & around 2ft from one of the speakers.

    Had a play around yesterday with everything again & still the hum - worse on the Phono stage which tends to go up & down when I increase / decrease volume.

    Today I’m going to clean all the valve seats etc with contact cleaner & reposition them - see if that helps.

    Also will try different lengths / types of speaker cable & interconnects however I fear it won’t have much impact.

    Thinking down the route of going back to my Integrated as this was more or less silent through my speakers.

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