These magical creatures crop up out of nowhere and fry your electronics or annoy your ear holes. Understanding them will doubtless save you money and hassle. The ground loop in a nutshell is what ...

Transmitting data over long distances is fraught with potential problems. A ground loop can be a source of interference that can induce a noise voltage between the grounds on either end of the ...

You've just connected your system and there's a buzz or hum that won't go away. You're running your gear through power conditioners and you're beating your head against the wall trying to figure out ...

One of the benefits of USB is the ability to power a remote device through the USB port. However, the ground wire within the USB cable can create a ground loop path in some industrial applications ...

So you just unboxed your new entertainment gear, hooked everything up, and you hear buzz, whine, hiss, chatter, or any number of other annoying noises that have been known to plague audio equipment.

Your new plasma HDTV is beautifully hung on the wall. The cables are run behind the drywall and under the floor to an equipment rack built into an unused closet space. The speakers are a recessed bit ...

Of all the annoyances that can afflict any audio/video home theater or even a simple stereo installation, the notorious “ground loop” may well be the most difficult and persistent one to track down ...

Has anyone had any experience using HDMI fiber optic converters/extenders? I have a weird ground loop problem in my system which I traced back to my HTPC. I get hum whenever I join the grounds between ...