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Speaker still hums with amp shut down: cause? cure?

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I kid you not. Last night, after my "record break" I turned off my system and noticed that the right speaker only was still humming softly with what sounded like a 60 Hz hum.

My amp shuts down to a "standby" mode, so, just to be sure, I killed the main power switch. This completely disconnects the amp (both legs of the AC power) from the power line.

Still humming away. When I short the speaker wires, the hum stops.

The speaker wires for this speaker are not near any AC cords. The wire feeding this speaker is a Goertz "ribbon" cable, about 3 meters long.

Only remaining test is to see if the hum persists over a long period, in case it takes a while for the power supply caps in the amp to fully discharge.

I live near TV transmitter towers, about 2 km away.

Any ideas as to cause or cure from you tech types?

TIA.


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