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It was a ground loop. I'm still working on a permanent solution, but I was able to figure out the issue was a ground loop by testing the speakers with ground lifted. It worked that way, but sketches me the f**k out, so im going to try to find a less sketchy way to solve it. Ill post a final solution when I get one setup

already am. I ended up calling some sound friends from work and they helped me out. thanks though.

That's basically the concision I've come to, but I wasn't sure if anyone had any ideas as to how to remove it, or if there was another possible problem.

Will it still produce a variating buzz if its a ground loop? Things that I have read showed a ground loop being a constant tone. If it is a ground loop though, how would I go about getting rid of it?

The imput volume can be all the way down and it will still buzz

So I recently got an amazing deal on some M-Audio BX-8's (way overkill for my purposes, but hey, go big or go home, right?), but they are hissing horribly. (attached is an audio recording of the sound) My current setup is I have a M-Audio M-Track 2x2 connected to my PC through USB. I then have my studio monitors connected to the M-Track through basic TS 1/4 audio cable. I know the speakers aren't damaged themselves. I hooked up my phone 1/8 in port directly to the speakers and there is no hissing. I have done some troubleshooting and will continue to and update this post as I do, but this is what I have found so far. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my PC. It only makes the hum when my PC is powered. They are both on the same circuit in my apartment, and unfortunately are basically have to be due to the way the circuits are slayed out in my cheaply made apartment. That being said, I don't know if its an issue with my PC having a grounding issue and sending bad power back to the wall, or going through USB. I also tried bypassing the M-Track and conecting my PC directly to my speakers, but that didn't change anything, still had hissing. The Hissing is various, so I don't think its a ground loop(everything I've seen on that is a constant buzz around 60 hz). It also is not constant volume, so as i adjust the volume on the speaker itself, (knob on the back) the buzzing gets louder and quieter respective to which way I adjust the volume. I am fairly new to the world of audio, and I've been slowly trying to get into it, so if there's some obvious trouble shooting step that I haven't mentioned, feel free to comment, i probable haven't tried it yet. memo_voice_29.m4a Update: i ran the audio cable down to my kitchen and powered my speakers from an outlet down there and the buzz was still there, so its not an issue with the power coming from the outlet.

It didnt get much news, but for a short while, steam talked about a portable steam handheld device. (at least I don't remember it being talked about much) When I saw it, I thought it was a neat idea. Having the entire steam library in a portable device would be pretty neat, but shortly stopped hearing updates from it. That being shortly after having released the steam machines, it may have been drowned out buy articles on that. That was in December of 2015. Now lets talk about Nintendo. For the longest time, they were a video game platform that mostly sold games made my them. (If not all) Pretty much the exact opposite of what made Steam, Steam. When they announced the Nintendo Switch, October, 2016, 10 months after the steamboy announcement. It announced with a couple big title Nintendo game, typical Nintendo thing to do, but also in the official Nintendo announcement, showed off other games that were not made by Nintendo. Pretty neat. Shortly after release, there are more and more non Nintendo games on the the switch. Of the top 15 of the top selling games on the eshop, Nintendo only has 3. This showing that Nintendo does not have the top selling games on the switch, and that there are a lot mores games on the switch made my non Nintendo developers. Many games that have been made popular on steam are hitting the Switch. I know, its not the entire steam library, but games like Skyrim, Overcooked, Minecraft, and Hollow Knight are having Nintendo Switch Releases. So, Is the Nintendo switch what the Steamboy should have been? I think so, but that's just my opinion. What are your guys' thoughts. Does this change how you viewed the Switch?

Thanks! That really helps and makes sense.

Hello, So I am a college student currently living in a dorm where several of the other students have WiFi printers. (I do not) Many of the other students in the dorm complain about these printers claiming that they slow down the internet, and are starting to get obnoxious about it. I'm pretty sure that this is less of an issue of the printers, and more of the issue of slow sh*tty WiFi. Is this true, or am I completely wrong? I wouldn't thing that these printers are the cause of the issue because they seem to run on their own network, and also have very little traffic on them since your only printing maybe a few things at a time. The printers show up as a separate network, so I would think that they won't affect the network the internet runs on, but maybe I'm just completely wrong. Either way, I figured one of you guys would know much more about this and how they actually work, so I figured I would ask here. Thanks!

So I recently got a new laptop which has a M.2 Slot. I was planing on installing an M.2 SSD, but the laptop does not include the standoff and screw. My question is, are the screws and standoffs standard? The laptop uses a custom motherboard. If so, does anyone know their specifications? Thanks!

supper cool projector! I've seen some similar projectors, but none that have worked this well!

AMD FX-8350 Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 gaming 4X4 DDR3 Ram

I like how this bridges the gap between consoles and PC gaming. Good luck to everyone!

So at my University, They use Cisco NAC Agent to connect your desktop to the internet via a wired connection. Its been working just fine until earlier this week. Since then, when I try to log into the agent, it give me a Server communication error, and wont let me access the internet. Its full message is "NAC Server is not available on the network. Please contact your system administrator if the problem persists (or) try disconnecting and reconnecting to the network to start a new connection." I've tried reconnecting the connection, but that hasn't worked. I've also tried contacting the administrator, which their solution to the issue was wait for cisco to come out with a new update. Does anyone else know any potential fixes to this issue? Thanks!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomtu/angee-the-first-truly-autonomous-home-security-sys/description This thing looks pretty neat, but they never mention one of the things that conventional security systems do. Call the police. I'm interested to know if there is anyway to set it to call the police if it detects an intruder, or if it will just notify your phone and you would then call the police. They talk about the price of the product, but I'm interested in if you will be able to purchase their security tags separately, and how easy it is to connect them. Also with the security tags, will they notify you if the battery on them start to die, since they run on a AAA battery. Another potential issue I've thought about is with pets. Ever since I was a kid, I've had a cat and a dog. How will angee differentiate between a cat, and a cat burglar. It looks like a really cool system, but I do have these concerns about it.

the problem with this is that you can never get as close of a shave as you can with a traditional razor. It is getting better, but because of the way electric razors work, there is a metal guard in place that protects the user, but also means you can get any closer than the width of that guard.

They are designed to protect people's Ideas and products, but when people patent basic ideas like this, it shows a bad side of patents.

normally, it would last 20 years, and since it was Filled in 1995, that would make sense why it is coming up now. They would want to wait as long as possible to maximize profit. But since it has transferred ownership, I'm not sure if that date would change or not. Either way, this is a bull shit claim, and I hope that they don't win anything from this, but I know nothing about legal things.

India has published a new proposal to change the law on encrypted applications. The new proposal states that any applications using encryption must store plain text documents of all encrypted data for 90 days. They also require any overseas companies using encryption to submit their full crypto software, testing suites, and supporting documentation. They will not allow any encrypted algorithms or key lengths that have not been approved by the government. The only exceptions to this new rule are SSL/TLS and sensitive government departments. SSL is a standard security technology to establish an encrypted link between a web server and a browser, and TLS is a successor to SSL. So you don't have to worry about hackers getting your credit card info when you buy something on amazon with the LTT affiliated code. Google and apple are already fighting their domestic security agencies, so they aren’t likely to comply with the Indian government on this issue. These are proposal rules only, and the Indian government does have a public comment period open until october 16th. full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/21/indias_proposed_rules_on_encryption/

Boubacar Kante, a professor at university of California-San Diego, and his team, Li Yi Hsu and Thomas Lepetit, made a breakthrough in cloaking technology. They created a super thin non metal material that can manipulate electromagnetic waves. (including light and radio waves) Its official name is a dielectric metsurface cloak. The breakthrough is is the material and the size of the material. Since 2006, we have been able to manipulate microwaves, but only microwaves and only in 2D space. They were also made of metals, which were required to be as much as 10 times the size of the wavelength being dodged. (for missile Guidance and Marine radar, it would require to be about 1ft of coating) The new material only requires to be 1/10th the size of the wavelength. (for same guidance and radar, only required 3mm of coating) This is due to it now being able to be made of ceramics, which are cheap, abundant, and much easier to scale up production. The device works by manipulating light and radio waves. If you can prevent the radio waves from returning to its source, you can make it look invisible on radar. If you can prevent light from bouncing off an object and then traveling to a person, you can prevent people from seeing the object. Kante says he can do this in certain conditions. Unfortunately, the experiment was tested at 45 degrees, and only worked with a 6 degree range of angles. It also can not hide from both radar and visual, since each cloak only works with a small range of wavelengths, But Kante says he has been in contact with the US DOD project manager and expects to be submitting a proposal this month. Kayla Matola, research analyst for HDIAC (Homeland Defence and security Information analysis center), estimates that the use of technology to be in use in 5-10 years. If they are able to get HDIAC on board, they could move this into production within months. full article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/09/20/breakthrough-cloaking-technology-grabs-militarys-attention/72544510/

My favorite feature is the smart switch. Its going to make switching phones so much simpler. I wish more phones had this.