Whats going on here? I noticed about a year ago that my signal would drop out when I would walk across a particular part of my listening room. I sold my last rig and was not listening to music for awhile. I rebuilt my rig and now my dropouts are worse. My signal will drop now if I'm in the adjoing room walking around, if I open or close my closet doors, if someone turns a light on or off downstairs and if someone opens or closes the garage door. I know I'll probably have to call an electrician in order to fix this, but any ideas whats going on here? Is it possibly a problem with the electrical panels ground? This is pretty dang frustrating...
03-23-15: B_limo
And stop opening or closing the closet doors? Stop using any light switches throughout the house? Stop using the garage door opener? Uh, ok
I believe the cutouts are occuring through my source, a wadia 170i ipod dock. Could be the dock or the docks or the docks power supply. Haven't pin pointed it yet but still, I think the main source of problem has to do with the homes electrical in some way...
B_limo
Sounds like a loose connection with the wadia 170i ipod dock
unit.
From your posts any physical transmitted vibration in the area of the wadia 170i ipod dock unit causes dropouts. If you tap on the unit with a couple of your fingers while the unit is outputting music does the signal drop out? If so the problem is with the unit. Check all connections. Gently move cables back and forth on the back of the unit.
Could be a poor conductivity connections in the docking station connector.
As for the the signal drop out problem happening sometimes when a light switch is turned on or off that could be caused by a transient voltage spike. That is not an electrical problem per say, it is more than likely a poor design problem of the piece of audio equipment. For this problem try a power trip with a built in transient voltage surge protector.
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http://wwv.crutchfield.com/p_727170I/Wadia-170iTransport-Silver.html
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