Static noise from speakers


Hello,

Getting what sounds like static noise from my speakers. The weird thing about it is this happens when I am not playing any music with the volume turned just about all the way down. Problem comes and goes, minutes can go by between interval in which this noise occurs. Noise last for a few seconds and the noise level varies. Problem appears to occur once in a while when I play music, but not any where near as often.

Any help would be much appreciated.
sympaticonorm
I'm having the exact same problem as we speak. In my situation, it's my integrated amp that's the culprit and I'm strongly assuming your electronics could also be the cause of what you're hearing.
I've been told it's either a bad capacitor that my service guy previously worked on or I have some tubes going bad.
You may also want to check all of your cabling and make sure none of the connectors are touching.
Good Luck!
Do you have any tubes anywhere in your system? If so, I suspect a tube is going bad. Can you isolate the problem to either the left or right speaker? If so, you can try swapping tube sets left to right to see if the issue moves.

You'll likely need to provide some information about your system to get any helpful responses.

TIC
Yes, I do have tubes. I am using a Conrad Johnson CJ60SE amp and a VTL 2.5 preamp. The tubes in my amp are getting kind of old (2 year old, and a fair amount of listening time). I now seem to vaguely remember that a few months back I had a similar problem but to a lesser extent and after cleaning tube pins and sockets with alcohol the problem went away for some time. Based on your comments Reubent, you probably nailed the problem first shot. The odd thing is that the system sounds great to my ears...except for this intermittent static noise. I thought that when tubes were on their way out the system would not sound so good. My lack of experience with tubes I guess. Problem is usually in Left channel. I will follow your recommendations and swap tubes sides to see if I can isolate problem to one side.

Do you believe that only one tube is causing this or the tubes on the one side? Is there anything visual that I could inspect to determine if I have a bad tube? I do not have a tube tester.

Thanks,
NJT