Greetings
I just picked up a pair of Yamaha HS80M studio monitors but have been greeted with crazy buzz/hum when swapping them into my setup.
It seems that everything electrical affects it, too.
I have swapped over every cable, tried every power socket and combo I can think of and while the hum does differ, it is still very much there.
Maybe I have dirty power in my room - but why is it JUST these speakers that are affected by it so much??
If everything is unplugged from them, they are fine as silent as they should be. If I plug something in while it is off, they buzz a bit. If i turn it on, they buzz like hell!
Computer, PC screens, POD HD guitar amp sim, interface etc. Everything affects it in some way.
Any thoughts?
My old speakers are back in my setup now and are perfectly fine.
This is the problem:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/502164-hell-back-w-yamaha-hs80m.html
In my old house that happened to me, only in the basement. I had to keep all speaker wire off the floor. Also one of your input devices could be faulty and the new (assuming higher quality) speakers are picking up the distortion the your old speakers werent sentitive enough for you to hear. I have an ipod that makes buzzing in any stereo and if you are grounded it will give you a lil shock too. Also i have a pos asus mobo that creates massive emi over the sound chip that when i got a new amp that mobo became unusable. You could hear the buzzing on every input with that mobo plugged in. (cheapest mobo i could find at the time lol not hating on asus)
I have HS80M's and they are silent at 4db where i run them. Have you tried using a stereo cable (TRS) instead of a mono one? That's what im running. I've seen people have this issue with the yammies before and it's either both are "bad " or they work perfectly fine so it's not the speakers themselves. It has to be the setup somehow. They're very sensitive. BTW it would be a shame if you can't figure out the problem. HS80M's are extremely good.