I have an Onkyo TSX-R353 and a pair of Infinity SM125 speakers. When I play music from Pandora from my cell phone I can hear speaker hiss. It connects via Bluetooth. It's not very loud, but I'd rather get rid of it, or at least minimize it as much as possible.
How to cut down on stereo speaker Hiss....
- Thread starter daves66nova
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Is the hiss there when you are not playing anything? Phone off / maybe select CD or something on the amp.
Is the hiss constant or volume dependent? How high is the volume knob on the receiver when you hear the hiss?
Do you hear that hiss with other music sources?
I really don't listen to other sources. I just turned it on and Pandora playing, and it's definitely the stereo volume knob that raises or lowers the hiss. It a very minor but steady, constant hiss. Doesn't fluctuate on it's own.
You dont provide us enough information to get to a definitive answer.. there are still multiple possibilities.
I tried tuner without antenna hooked up, no signal came in and i cranked it up all the way like that and no hiss. I don't have a cd player hooked up at the moment.
It's the stereo volume knob that determines hiss. I tried phone and it didn't affect it
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Is the hiss present with the music paused?
The point is that with the phone turned up high, you won't have to turn the stereo up as much to reach the desired volume, thus there will be less hiss.
Dave, This is literally the answer to the title "how to cut down on noise"
you turn the source volume up (phone)
which lets you leave the receiver volume lower for less hiss.
if you were already doing that.. then you are outta luck.
you could also try plugging the phone in with headphone jack vs bluetooth.. it might have less hiss.
You dont say but if you have music such as unremastered 70's that might be partially to blame (background noise)
Mainly classical music. I like to hear the variety of instruments.
I use cd mode, I turned it up all the way, dead quiet
This is correct. Phone doesn't raise hiss. Now, if i use stereo volume , is there anything that can cut down some hiss? If not, oh well. Thanks to all who inputted info.
Try a different bluetooth receiver connected to the aux-in, maybe?
Assuming you are using the built-in bluetooth and it has some problem or design defect causing the hiss.
I'm not sure if it does, I've never seen one on it. So there's nothing to lower that hiss?
