Hooking DishNetwork receiver to amp=speaker noise?


I tried to send the audio outputs of my Dish Network receiver to an input on my integrated amp and it causes some low level speaker noise even when I don't use that input. The same happens if I hook the TV output to the preamp.
Normally things are dead silent with my CD players.

So I gave up on this idea (don't want to contaminate my good equipment which is for music first).

Any idea of the cause of this or any solution?
rgs92

Showing 1 response by kbarkamian

I had the same problem - cable box RCAs or TV RCAs into my integrated amp caused a hum. Much more apparent on the input I used, but still present regardless of the input I used.

The cause was/is different ground points being used for the cable wire and my system (aka ground loop?).

I got a Jensen Cable TV RF Isolator. Zero noise now. Costed about $60.

Googling it, I just saw on the website that it says "This unit will not work with satellite systems."

I'd imagine their are ones available for satellite systems. Also as has been mentioned, use an optical connection if you can. This is the driving force behind optical, as there's no electrical signal being passed.