98.7, WMZQ: Today's Best Country!

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This is a problem that's been driving me nuts literally for years. My house is under constant assault from the signal from a certain WMZQ-FM, the local country station. And it's awful, awful music. And everything metal picks up the signal. You can hear it faintly in the background of a telephone receiver. I even heard it once when I put my ear up to the toaster.
So naturally, my stereo also suffers from this a little bit. It used to be that at certain times, you could faintly hear the broadcast in the background but music would drown it out except for silences. I just got a new tube preamp, however, and it's unbelievable. It's like having two radios in my speakers, forever tuned to one hellish station. Turning it up to a good volume drowns it out, but there are again the quiet passages to worry about, and quiet listening is nigh-impossible at peak hours without hearing Reba McEntire faintly in the background. I'm one of "those people" who don't believe in cable magic, but I went out and spent some decent mint on rugged shielded interconnecting cables (Audioquest, not Monster).
Is there any solution to this problem? It seems to be endemic to the house and, short of building a Faraday cage around my listening room, I can't think of any. I've always balked at the price of "good" speaker cables but I'd be willing to spend a bit of cash if shielding will really make that big a difference. Shielded ICs haven't, though.
The signal strength varies throughout the day but unfortunately is at its peak at the best listening hours. The problem isn't as big with headphones as with speakers; it's just background noise with cans but it's sort of like having a radio turned down low inside either speaker.
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Topic - 98.7, WMZQ: Today's Best Country! - Mark Tinordi 15:29:20 04/07/07 (8)

Re: 98.7, WMZQ: Today's Best Country! - Awe-d-o-file 08:49:32 04/08/07 (3)

Damn - Mark Tinordi 16:49:07 04/08/07 (2)

Re: Damn - Awe-d-o-file 11:18:09 04/11/07 (0)

Re: Damn - Rob Doorack 07:02:37 04/09/07 (0)

Just wondering what speaker cables you're using now - Athanos 00:13:14 04/08/07 (0)

The reason I mentioned the preamp tubes - Mark Tinordi 15:31:33 04/07/07 (2)

Reverse the 6X4 and 0A2s: the former is illegible, while the latter are JAN Philips (nt) - Mark Tinordi 15:32:25 04/07/07 (1)

Re: Reverse the 6X4 and 0A2s: the former is illegible, while the latter are JAN Philips (nt) - bobwood 16:06:35 04/07/07 (0)

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