Ever since connecting my HTPC to my Denon 8500, I can hear my SATA drives reading/writing through my speakers. With only the AVR, it was so quiet I never bothered to look into it. But, yesterday I added a Monolith 5ch and now the noises are quite apparent. In link below, you can hear a bit of chirping before I start a file copy - those are my 5400rpm drives reading/writing misc. background tasks. At first I thought the issue was only present on mechanicla drives, so I did a file copy between SSDs only to get a different kind of sound. That's what you hear a few seconds in when the copy begins. (check your volume before playing, as always)
Any suggestions? My setup is dead simple - HDMI cable to receiver to TV, Monolith 5ch to a variety of Kef speakers and then 2 monolith subs and a pair of KH120's. I've read that some HDMI cables can exhibit this behavior, so I tried 3 different cables but no change. They're all relatively old, so I guess it's possible they all have same issue but seems unlikely. I've also tried connecting the AVR ground to the Monolith ground terminal, but that didn't seem to help (I'm not even sure if that's appropriate, denon's manual doesn't give grounding instructions). I never had any such trouble with USB interfaces
Any suggestions? My setup is dead simple - HDMI cable to receiver to TV, Monolith 5ch to a variety of Kef speakers and then 2 monolith subs and a pair of KH120's. I've read that some HDMI cables can exhibit this behavior, so I tried 3 different cables but no change. They're all relatively old, so I guess it's possible they all have same issue but seems unlikely. I've also tried connecting the AVR ground to the Monolith ground terminal, but that didn't seem to help (I'm not even sure if that's appropriate, denon's manual doesn't give grounding instructions). I never had any such trouble with USB interfaces