Agent 009 said:
You could try this: Have your wires covered with a twisted copper wiring (or any other cheaper conducting material, but copper is the optimum), then you'll have to cover this shielding with something, to look nice (I suppose that irregular twisted wires on your neat home theater system would look really awful :wink: ). You can use the stuff repairmen use for shielding the cables they've cut and then connected together. It looks like a thick empty rubber wire-shaped cylinder, that is folded onto the connection part (for your system, it's the WHOLE wires...), then proper heating flame (a cigarette lighter would be great, if not a candle) would make the big cylinder shrink to fit the inner stuff (here, the shielded wires).
I did have bare copper wires, and its already twisted around all my wires; however as mentioned i still get the interference, but guess what, yesterday i wrap the whole bunch of cables with aluminium tape n boo.....bye bye radio. now i have something like a big aluminium hose lol (all wires inside).
I also thought of re wiring all the wires with shielded matrial like u said, thats not relly a problem, but ive spent quite some money on fixing this prob already, so im to get it done with cheapest mean. (the speaker company is really cheap.....the speaker i ahev is the top model but they use lousy unshielded wires.....man!)
stevez said:
Are the components all part of a system from a single supplier? If so, is it installed, connected, etc, per the manufacturer's instructions?
I know this seems awfully basic but in many countries equipment that is sold must meet some standards that would address this. In general the standards cover transmitted or radiated energy (intentional or otherwise) as well as a tolerance for transmitted or radiated energy. I know a lot of stuff does get sold in the US and Canada that is not compliant.
I know that this might not be the technical help that you are looking for but have you contacted the dealer or manufacturer?
it is exactly like u said, the wires are acting like antenna, every one of them, but i find it awfully wierd, there are 4 wires, but if on of them is shielded and/or geounded properly, all others cant pick up the signal. like i said, i twisted all the wires with bare copper wires and connected them to my metal speaker stand which is used to ground it, then wrapped the wireswith aluminium tape...and the interference goes off. but 3 other wires arent properly shielded......
I have contacted the manufacturer millions of times, all they cna say is get some ferrite beads and stuck it on the wire, thats really funny, radioshack canada hasnt been carrying it for a couple of years already. I also have tried getting it from other sources but they sell in bulk..
btw, all the technician could say is.....other than ferrite beads....is to move the speaker around the room until i cant hear the interference, or "theres is nothing that u can do other than moving -- your house!"
did i mention that i also tried a 80bucks (cad) monster subwoofer powerstrip? totally no hope....
although i solved the interference....um actually its only the front channels thats been solved, i actually connectedall four speaker to the front channel only, the more bizzarre part is that anything connected to the rear channel wll pick up radio signale no matter what, I believe its somehing wrong with the built in amp, probably they tuned the frequency to some frequency thats similar to commercial radio frequency. i really hope to fix the rear channel....but i really have no idea how. Btw this is the second speaker, i exchanged one from them last tim which also had the same problem. thank you for all the replies, its cool that so many repiles in just a night
you guys have been very helpful. but if you could solve my rear channel's super interference problem, it would be even more better