#Radio shack rca ground loop isolator driver

However i noted that when i removed the power cable from the laptop and run the laptop off the battery, the distortion stoppedĬould this be a grounding issue and not MCE ?

#Radio shack rca ground loop isolator driver

The laptop came with XP Media Centre Edition on and thought, it would be a problem with the M Audio driver, they state on their website they have no supported driver for MCEĪnyway I am going to put XP Pro on my computer as the general concensious is that MCE is a no no for firewire soundcards and Ableton Installed my M Audio Audiophile Firewire, once thedrivers were installed and the card switched on, i got an distorted scrathchy noise coming through the speakers I bought a new laptop yesterday, toshiba eqiuium core 2 duo Nobody beats Radio Shack, I'm sorry to say. To this day, I have yet to find a single ground loop isolator which works on my big Pentium 4 laptop. desperate, I just got one of those Radio Shack isolators for $15. and still had the damned ground loop noise. but on my big laptop with that desktop power supply, the noise was still there. I had a smaller laptop with a Pentium M chip, and this ART unit did solve ground noise on it. This unit did not solve the ground loop noise on my big laptop. When I got this laptop, the ground loop noise was insane. It has a huge power box that comes with it. It is basically a desktop CPU in a laptop case.

I have based my recommendation of the Radio Shack isolator on the following: it is still better than the noise.Īnyway. it cures the ground loop noise, so even if it does degrade the audio somewhat. It does not affect sound quality adversely. But SF, your testimony would have convinced me if i needed something so it must work fine. Why they thought that was bad I don't recall. It's been awhile, but I remember the only critical comment about the RCA thingy was that it became a part of the audio path. I remember reading on here around a year ago about this topic. The subwoofer is in the back of the room my options are limited in plugging everything into a single circuit.Īnything I can do besides trying a device that was mentioned earlier? I'd like to tackle and resolve this issue.That is the best ground loop isolator made. So perhaps an Emotiva CMX-2 might do this in a safer way which some have recommended. So the only solution would be to use some device to lift the ground or use a balanced connection. That is the differing ground potentials may create a ground loop in an unbalanced connection. I do not have cable tv coax but do have a cable modem in the other room.īased on my research this is a biproduct of using a separate circuit for AV equipment and separate circuit for the subwoofer. I've already tested my outlets and the polarity and ground are all correct in the house. However, using a separate cable direct RCA end to end has the same effect. I am using an unbalanced RCA which goes to a RCA wall plate via Blue Jeans subwoofer cable and Belden RG-59 coaxial cable in wall. The AVR equipment and subwoofer are on a separate circuit. Knowing this is not a safe solution I removed it. I quickly used a ground lift adapter 3 prong to 2 as a test and the subwoofer is silent. It's not loud enough to notice while listening but loud enough to be annoying when the room is quiet. I recently started to notice a hum from my Rythmik E15HP subwoofer.