Liteon 5005 audio hum

[slash72]

Here is the reply I received from Liteon on the issue.

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your information,kinldy be informed that it is a known issue,we
will try to fix it by the next firmware.

Best regards,
Customer Service Division, DCBU

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Customer Service Division
Lite-On IT Corp. www.liteonit.com
Email : DC_SUPPORT@LITEONIT.COM
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¡½ Issue From :E-Mail Service ¡½
¡½ Issue DateTime is :2005/1/15 ¤U¤È 02:51:19 ¡½

When recording programs using the tuner on the unit the level is too high,
causing a humming noise. Need a way to reduce audio level on the lvw-5005
when
using composite input.

[lordsmurf]

Power problem on your end.
Or line noise on your end.

Unlikely to be fault of recorder.

[Bron]

I had exactly the same problem and I've seen reports of it elsewhere - I figured it was a power/line problem too, but I couldn't get rid of it. I switched to using an external tuner and everything works great in that configuration. I wonder if the mono tuner may indeed be the issue - thinking back I probably had both audio (left and right) hooked up and it may be that you should just hook up the left - but I'm not about to go back and try that now. Anyway - ignoring the hum, the audio from the tuner was thin and tinny to my ears anyway and would be acceptable only for TV news shows and such, but might do in a pinch.

Anyway - the builtin tuner is crap by any measure - so use an external tuner and get decent stereo audio output (even DTS) and no hum!

Just my opinion.