My home theater speakers pick up the radio in the background, are there ways of preventing this?
When the speakers are on, you can hear the radio, but its not connected to any radio reciever, just the DVD player and the subwoofer, this is a Coby home theater system, with dvd player, a sub and two speakers. It works well, just has the radio background which is annoying. I’ve looked for answers but cannot find anything exactly with what I need. Can anybody help me?
My guess is that the speakers themselves are either wired to the system wrong, or wired within the speakers wrong.
This is called “radio signal interference”. Both your TV/stereo and your radio produce invisible radio microwaves (the same radiation you use to cook food.) All those similar appliances produce the same sort of radiation, and depending on how good the speakers are, if the radio is putting out radio waves that go 30 feet in all directions, and your home theater is 15 feet from the radio… You get radio on your TV. Turn the radio off, or move it outside the radius of your TV/home theater.
It’s kind of like it’s a nice warm Summer day, and you have decided to take your book outside and read it in your lawn chair on the front lawn; about that time, your wife decides to water the front lawn, so she turns on the sprinkler. If you (the home theater) happen to be sitting within the radius of the sprinkler (radio), you’re gonna get wet.
Itr sounds like you need sheilding to me. Try using better quality speaker wire..usually the wire that they give you is very poor quality. You can try that but it probably isnt that…Maybe put tin foil around your reciever??
Yes, you are picking up radio waves from your system. There
are devices to filter out these interferences. See my source…
Ask the people from Crutchfield or Parts Express, and they will
get you the right item to fix your problem. Or, just go to your lo-
cal Radio Shack and they will have what you need as well.
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