Digitheatre humming

[scottupham]

Hello,

Sorry I know this question has been asked a thousand times, but with the search function not working and no-one asking the question in the last month I can't find the answer!

My didigtheatre is humming quite noisily when there are brief periods of silence in a film or when left switched on with no sound.

Is it something to do with the fact the speaker wires are close to the mains socket?

Thanks

Scott

[albertz]

Scott,

Is it the DigiTheatre you have, or the DTS DigiTheatre? If you have the DTS version you should not experience any mains hum, however the standard AC-3 DigiTheatre does produce mains hum which can be quite noticeable.
Hope this helps.

[Simian]

Got the same hum on the same product.

Remember Videologic saying it was due to the budget nature of the product and couldn't be corrected. I have noticed that having the speaker wire running alongside mains wire does seem to make it worse. I have pretty much stopped using the Digitheatre for anything other than action movies as the buzz is so noticeable. Try e-mailing videologic or check out www.709online.com if it is still there as there was always a few tips in the hardware section.

Let me know how you get on.

[scottupham]

Thanks for the replys,

It is the Digitheatre 5.1 Dolby Digital package, although with Comet selling the DTS version for £250 I am very tempted to upgrade!

Glad the DTS doesnt suffer from the same problem.

Thanks

[jondoc]

The DTS does have the hum. Videologic bought mine back off me after having 4 replacements. All had the hum, but some worse than others.

[albertz]

Put it down to extreme bad luck, jondoc!