Appliances like light dimmers are particularly bad for polluting the AC house wiring and radiating RFI/EMI which makes it's way into audio equipment. I have a professional digital audio workstation and mixing console which is not completely immune to the noise emitted from some of these dimmers.

The 950 is not at fault - blame your house wiring and your other household appliances!

[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited February 24, 2004).]

Just received notice that, as I expected, it was a bad transformer. Apparently they had to replace it. Hope to get the unit back soon to test it out.

Just an update. After the repair, my 950 sounds better than ever. Very happy (once again)!

I just did two things that dramatically improved my 5.1 sound. I removed a cheap RCA-RCA cable I was using to get standard video from the 950 to my old tv AND I installed a PriceWheeler Brick Wall unit. Vwah-lah: no buzzing, no humming just a black, silent background. Am I crazy or is there musical information I've never noticed before on those Steely Dan sacd's and dvd-a's? For $250 I'd say: get this puppy!

Jay