From: thekmanrocks@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 11:06:32 AM UTC-4, Martin Brown wrote:   
   > 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?   
   > I find it hard to believe that a 20 year old TV will work at all on    
   > modern digital TV signals without a set top box interposed somewhere.    
   >    
   > My money for distorted audio would be on the audio amplifier circuit in    
   > the set. Electrolytic capacitors seldom last more than a couple of    
   > decades without degrading to some extent.    
   >    
   > Signal related problems on digital are generally of the all or nothing    
   > type due to the error correction and the image usually breaks up first.    
   > Audio tends to get short gaps in and/or ultrasonic clicks depending on    
   > the sophistication of the decoder (better ones mute bad blocks, crude    
   > ones generate intense high frequency pulses instead).    
   >    
   > --    
   > Martin Brown   
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   That's what I was thinking.  More along the lines of the signal amp causing   
   audio to clip on smaller TVs with smaller speaker amps.   
      
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