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Loud thump when I power on or off

I have some NHT VT3's hooked up to a fairly nice system. The amp is the Mc6850. These speakers have the built in power amps and come with a preamp of they're own. The thumping noise never happened on my last several pairs of speakers with my current Amp. It also seems to of gotten quite a bit worse since I hooked up a turntable a few weeks ago. It is worse when the volume is turned up more.
I don't mean to sound like an idiot but my first few ideas are as follows: Buy a line conditioner, hmm, not sure what else. Do I have a ground issue? Does anyone have any ideas. Thanks,
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mechans
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Hiend2: What is the point of floating a ground? Either it should be grounded or not exist at all because if it's floating around you might hurt some one!
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hiend2
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I said try to float the ground you may learn more about the systems grounding. To me turn on/off thunps are leaking DC to some extent, I have repair bills to prove it can be the case
hifi57audio
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Hiend2 is close. The turn on/off thumps are caused by a rapidly climbing or decaying DC signal component being coupled to your speakers. This occures as the ciruit RC constants are charged/discharged. Most equipment is designed as to not allow this, by circuit design, or relays. Turn on your powered speakers last, if that does't work, they are likely defective.
ramc
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I have a pair of VT3s purchased new, close to 3 years ago. I experience the same sound when powering the woofers on or off. They are both fed via a dedicated 20 amp circuit upstream of a PS Audio Power Director 3.5.
unsound
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Jafox offers good advise. I'd like to add, that if you have an unused source on your control unit (pre), you should select it. Furthermore, allow a couple of minutes between powering up or or especailly down between components in the suggested sequences.
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