Ever since I've had my Acer Revo it's been irritating me because it pops and clicks at a low but disconcerting volume through the TV I have it connected to. It would stop popping and clicking if I disconnected one of the two stereo channels*; diagnosis therefore is one of those elusive and always poorly explained "earth loops"
So, I let that annoy me for over 6 months then splashed out £4 for a ground loop isolator from ebay:
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| Nothing says "High Quality" like a poorly applied black on gold label |
Otherwise known as an audio transformer it's a 1:1 er, transformer which, er, isolates the earth between bits of kit thus breaking any of those earth loops.
Staggeringly, it works.
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* I don't have it connected up with the HDMI 5 channel sound because:
- I don't have any other 5 channel gear to connect it to
- Ubuntu.
