Spark while voltage testing

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Offline Paul Birkeland

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Reply #30 on: October 24, 2019, 02:06:49 PM
A bit of a buzz could indicate that one of the 220uF caps isn't all the way soldered.  You can wiggle each one and see if the leads move through the terminal strips.

A little bit of buzz with the volume control turned all the way up and nothing plugged into the inputs is also completely normal and not indicative of anything amiss.

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Reply #31 on: October 24, 2019, 04:38:33 PM
What's weird is that I hear the buzz with my zmf headphones but not with other sennheiser ones, could this be a cable issue?



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Reply #32 on: October 24, 2019, 05:21:57 PM
I would start by looking at those 220uF filter caps and being sure that you hear the noise with the volume pot turned all the way down.

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