Beolab 4 humming problem

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I recently bought a pair of Beolab 4 speakers that i connected to my Samsung TV (ue48hu7505) through the 3.5 mm headphone jack. Everything is ok except a really annoying humming sound coming from the speakers. The speakers work just fine plugged to my computer. Unplugging the antenna cable doesn't help. Any advice?

I'm beginning to be desperate. 🙁

This is probably noise from the PSU and processor inside the samsung. In a headphone you won't hear this but the sensitive input of active loudspeakers like BL4 can pick it up from a TV headphone output and amplify it.

You need an attenuator in between the TV and the BL's. You can

a) build it yourself: link

b) use a headphone volume control, eg

Location: Netherlands

Before you start building check the switch setting underneath the BL4s.

There is one slider position for being attached to PCs and another for other LINE sources.

Thanks alot. I bought that headphone volume control and it worked. Kind of. I now have it set to as low as i can (1/10 maybe), and the humming is nearly gone. I can still hear it when i put my ear close to the speaker. Only problem is that i now have to set the tv volume really loud, but i think i can live with it. It kind of bugs me though that i have this kind of problem, with speakers this expensive.

"It kind of bugs me though that i have this kind of problem, with speakers this expensive"

 

Are you for real???

Blaiming b&o speakers to be bad and expensive then you have buy a cheap tv without proper line out ?????

 

Um, no. That's not what i was trying to say really. It just bums me that i have a great pair of speakers (yes pretty expensive too) that i am not able to use properly for whatever reason.

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