9 May
2014
9 May
'14
1:29 p.m.
On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:21:32AM +0000, Kaza Kore wrote:
Now what has confused me is laptops where I get a
ground hum. IE 50/60Hz (plus possibly harmonics) hum even when using nothing but headphone
plugged into onboard audio output, which is eliminated (or vastly reduced) by running off
batteries or by using a PSU with no earth pin. Never quite understood why that happens
when there is no connected piece of equipment for the signal to loop around... But
that's not really part of this discussion ;-)
That is due to crappy PCB design. The rules for audio and for digital
electronics are very different, and most PCB designers haven't got a
clue about how ground tracks and planes for audio and just apply the
guidelines for digital boards.
Ciao,
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