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Anyone else ever experience electrical dropouts?

Whats going on here? I noticed about a year ago that my signal would drop out when I would walk across a particular part of my listening room. I sold my last rig and was not listening to music for awhile. I rebuilt my rig and now my dropouts are worse. My signal will drop now if I'm in the adjoing room walking around, if I open or close my closet doors, if someone turns a light on or off downstairs and if someone opens or closes the garage door. I know I'll probably have to call an electrician in order to fix this, but any ideas whats going on here? Is it possibly a problem with the electrical panels ground? This is pretty dang frustrating...
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zd542
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"Whats going on here? I noticed about a year ago that my signal would drop out when I would walk across a particular part of my listening room."

Stop walking across that spot.
zd542
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Are you absolutely sure its an electronic problem? The reason I ask is that you say it happens when you are walking around the room. It may just be room acoustics. If you walk to different places in a room while music is playing, the sound can change quite a bit depending on where you are. If you stand in one spot, for example, you could loose a lot of bass, but if you stand somewhere else, it could be stronger.

Other than that, you may want to check that cables of any kind, are not running under the carpet. Also swap out any cables that are connected to the Wadia to make sure they're not damaged.
zd542
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One thing you can try is to run an extension cord from a different outlet that may be in better shape. Also, maybe try a pc power supply with a battery backup. Even if its only a temp fix until you figure out what the problem is.

As far as the actual electrical problem goes, it sounds like you may have an issue with one of the legs in your homes ac. Its the kind of thing that makes you think you have all kinds of electrical problems/dropouts with your house, but its a relatively simple, quick part to fix. It can also explain why your Wadia ps may not be bad. Understand, though, I'm not an electrician and this is just a guess on my part.
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