Eminent Audiophiles, I have been having perfect performance from SQB for two months since new, but tonight I noticed some very short ticks coming out of the speakers, different pan location each time. They are like vinyl noise, but happen only once every 5 minutes or so, random intervals, full frequency sound, it is like a 1ms snap. Happens on both wav and flac files, I've listened to them before, there are no ticks on the files. Rewinding to replay same passage gives no tick. 2 different CDs, same thing. Seems like playback equipment static electricity issue.
It is cold dry (<30% humidity) weather hear in NC, and I get a good static shock when I touch the amp chassis, but that doesn't cause an amplified snap sound in the speakers like I am hearing randomly even when I am sitting 10 feet from the system. I use a Cary integrated tube amp plugged straight into the wall on dedicated 20A circuit, which has confirmed good ground and is dead quiet other than the snap. SQB is using external upgrade linear PS with 3 prong plug into good grounded 15 amp outlet on surge strip. No problems with the new PS for the 2 weeks previous since I installed it. Any advice, comments, guesses, wise cracks, etc. are appreciated. Rich -- richidoo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ richidoo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3097 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21294 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
