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   On 27/05/2023 22:39, micky wrote:   
   > All my tv's run off a central location, which used to include cable but   
   > now has a DVDR with an amplified antenna that brings in my city and the   
   > next one.   
   >   
   > One tv is supplied a signal through a splitter/amp and a cable, and the   
   > sound is fine.   
   >   
   > The kitchen tv has lately developed bad sound.  Words are intelligible   
   > but sort of staticy or distorted.  Sometimes it's worse than others.   
   > Its signal is supplied through the same splitter/amp, another splitter,   
   > another splitter/amp, and a long cable,   
   >   
   > If  you were a betting man, where would the most likely problem be, in   
   > the kitchen TV (which is 20 or so years old), the cable, or that second   
   > amp, which has been sitting on the basement floor and running   
   > constantly, needing no attention, for 39 years?   
   >   
      
   Hi Micky,   
      
   The TV. Try moving it to the other location to check.   
      
   If there were a problem with the cable or splitter amp, you would be   
   seeing picture and sound disturbances possibly also on other outlets.   
      
   --   
   Adrian C   
      
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