Tech Oriented Folks Help: Subwoofer gets radio signal!!??!

[Balislinger]

OK so last night I moved my PC from one room to another. Once set up in the new room my subwoofer was picking up a radio station. It did this even with the computer and monitor asleep, the speaker volume all the way down and the speakers turned off. When it was picking up the station it was broadcasting only out of the subwoofer not out of the other speakers. What would cause something weird like that?

 

[Gollnick]

Sub woofers typically have their own amplifier built-in, so they are succeptible to radio interference. It is highly unnlikely that the RF signal is being received by radiated means. Instead, it's just about surely conducted into the subwoofer amp. There are two connections to the subwoofer. The first is power. Get a clamp-on ferrite bead from Radio Shaft and clamp it onto the power cable. You nay wisht to loop the cabe through the bead several times. The other path is the audio cable. Get a 0.01uF at 100V ceramic capacitor at Radio Shaft and put it across the audio signal entering the Subwoofer. These two fices should solve the problem.

 

[Balislinger]

Wow, that's impressive Chuck! Guess it just goes to show that the smart 'uns collect balisongs! Thanks, I will try those two fixes if I continue having the problem.