A line conditioner is a fancy surge protector that will provide cleaner power along with surge protection/grounding for cable and phone lines and might help with your problem.
I would also look at the audio connection from your reciever/pre-amp to the subwoofer. You mentioned a "Monster" cable for this connection. Is this a shielded coax type cable or a standard audio type cable. For long runs ( over 15 feet) it is generally recommended that quad shielded rg-6 coax cable be used with rca connectors fitted to the ends. This will prevent unwanted signals from getting into the audio source of the subwoofer.
BTW I have the Monster Power HTS 3600 on my system and it works great.
http://www.monstercable.com/power/pr...erence%20Power
Dennis
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Originally Posted by Trex
ncx - School me. You mention a line conditioner. I take it that is not the same thing as just a surge control device - or is it the same thing? You say that "you can also filter (coax) noise in many of those devices.", but you don't mean that a coax cable goes through (connects to) the conditioning device, do you? My sub cable is a Monster and crosses perpendicular to the coax cable, but they are some distance apart: the sub cable down along the floor over to the sub and the coax coming out of the floor and up to the separate input box for a Sharp Aquus LCD screen.
Would it be possible that my current surge box is not properly grounded? From what I can tell, you are implying that the coax grounding is probably good, but it is the shielding (and possibly the ground) for all the plug-ins that is the problem (or might lead to the solution).
Is Monster cable really good or really hype? What line conditioner do you recommend?
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