Oaf- Hum and halogen lamps:

I had a dimmable halogen lamp on the same circuit as my HT. (Used it turned all the way down for "backlighting" during movies.) Never 'eard a thing when I had the Sony pre/pro in there. Got the (red dot equiv) 950, and immediately apparant was lot's o' hum. Swapped it for an incandescent lamp with a 7W bulb, and I'm hunky dory. (This was a few months ago.)

And with Lena's good catch with the CG amps, might just be a particular interaction there. (Heck, we all know about the "particular" interaction between the red dot 950's and Klipsch speakers and either/or Acurus amps and hiss... )

Oh yeah, so the 950 *is* more senstive than some of the other components we've used, and maybe some CG amps (and probably some others too) are more senstive than some amps, bam, you put both of them together, and maybe you get ... an interaction.


[This message has been edited by Kevin C Brown (edited January 16, 2003).]