Strange buzz issue!


Hello audio friends! I’ve got a weird problem. I have an old ARC D-100B power amp (love the sound of it) and bought an ARC LS9 pre amp to match it with. Nice enough. Connected the LS9. Buzz/hum from both speakers. Consistent (clearly audible from listening position) at all volume levels/sources on the LS9. Crap, the LS9 must be faulty, I thought. For fun I connected the LS9 to two other power amps (Yamaha and Vincent). Dead silent. I then connected an old Yamaha pre amp to my D-100B. Silence. Same place, same cables. So, neither the LS9 nor the D-100B are faulty, but together they, or one of them, cause a pretty loud buzz. I’m going mad here! Any ideas? Thanks! 
teppas

Showing 1 response by barts

@hshifi
Both of these pieces are solid state.

To the OP, please ensure that ground wire between the two is a real good metal to metal contact.  Also you might try shorting out any unused RCA inputs, take that cheap interconnect you have layin' around and cut the end off about an inch back, strip the wires and twist together, plug it in.
It's a long shot, please do this with the units turned off.  In fact make up as many as you need and short all of the RCA inputs (so there are no inputs) and turn them back on.

Regards,
barts