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will a surge protector help against interference?

i replaced my home theater system thinking it was busted but when i recieved my new one it still had the same buzzing sound i noticed the buzz is in the bedroom too

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It sounds like somewhere in your electrical you either have a bad ground, or there is a florescent lamp or some other piece of electrical equipment causing the noise. Surge protectors will only help with an electrical surge, a power conditioned is what is used to remove noise from electrical lines. Check the different electrical equipment in the house by turning things off or unplugging them and check if the noise goes away, if not it could be in your electrical system or some kind of outside interference. If you still issues purchase a surgex power conditioner and that should take care of your issue.
So you've tried this system in other rooms/outlets? Some things in your power gid can cause this. Usually its something like an appliance using some juice like a vacume cleaner or a microwave but that of course is only temporary. If it's a constant thing then try to think of something you recently pluged in or changed that might be sucking power. What you want is a POWER CONDITIONER. Although a few high end surge protectors will sometime have limited power conditioning capabilities.
No, it really wont help. I'm not really sure what would help this, or what is causing it. If i had to take a guess, it's gotta be the quality of the wires touching each other likely coming out of a small hole in the back of the entertainment center. Honestly, it could be a number of things, and without looking at it, i have no idea. But a surge wouldn't help. a surge is designed to do one thing, detect power surges and shut down before they happen. It's basically exactly like the surge protector box, except designed to detect a smaller surge, and react quicker, to protect valuable electronics. For things like interference, even if the interference is caused by electrical charges in the power supply (which is unlikely in itself), a surge protector would not be able to detect the interference at all because it isnt sensitive enough, or else it would be able to detect it (also not likely) and would simply flip off every time you turned it on because the interference would simply trigger it. over and over again. For this problem you need to attack the interference at the source. where that is, i couldn't tell you.

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