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Audio interference on CRT battle station setup

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First post, by willinliv

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I wondered if anybody had any views on the interference introduced by running with speakers on both sides of a CRT monitor? I'm sure I used to run the setup like this in the old days - CRT with stereo PC speakers on left and right side. Current setup I'm not getting any visual issues on the screen but you get a noticeable buzz from the CRT on the speakers whilst the CRT is powered on, not huge but noticable. Has it always been this way but I didn't used to notice it?

Reply 1 of 2, by bertrammatrix

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Generally not. However, especially cheap speakers from that era have lousy shielding so it's totally possible. We used them to alert us to incoming cell phone calls after all 😀

Often it is the audio input cable that is the worst offender. Usually these are hard wired on older speakers, but you can still try moving it around/away from wires going to the monitor and see if that helps

Reply 2 of 2, by willinliv

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Thanks for the suggestion, not thought of that!

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