I get an occasional staccato hum (sounds like low freq. Morse code) through my Klipsch powered sub woofer. At the last East Meet 05 at my place, one of you guys said I should test it by playing something while the TV cable is disconnected. So, I played a DVD the other night with the TV cable removed and no hum. Thus, it is a problem with the ground for the TV cable. I was too fizzed at the time to remember who told me to do the test, but they also said it is common for a cable ground to not be doing its job properly and there are better ways to ground the cable coming into the house or to add a special grounding adaptor for the cable. Tommy - was that you with the sane and sober advice? What device can I buy to provide a better ground? Right now, the cable comes into the basement and it goes to a splitter (not a Radio Shack splitter, but a fancy one I bought from an Audio specialty shop. WooHoo, it's got gold connectors). That splitter has a bare ground wire which I have going over to a water pipe with one of those old school strap/nut devices. I cleaned all the surfaces on the pipe where it makes contact with the strap and cleaned up the ends of the wire from the splitter to the ground nut on the strap and the strap is all cleaned up, but that has not stopped the hum.

Help appreciated.

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Trex