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Lol very helpful, yes I'm sure my ears are the reason.

Thank you Gary! Yeah you hit the nail on the head. Like what are the chances? Seems so unlikely. I'll continue swapping components around, using different circuits in the house, and trying it all at someone else's house too, like I mentioned. Plus the humdinger. Something has to start making...

Gary, thank you! That is very helpful. I got an AVA Humdinger on the way to see if that takes care of the transformer hum. So that's one issue potentially taken care of. And it makes sense to me that the dropout in sound is another issue. But -- I don't get why you think my elimination process...

Indeed I did rule out the amp, but the speakers and speaker cables are also ruled out. I'll reiterate what I tried to say above in my troubleshooting with this little diagram: First setup: Amp Speaker Channel L -> Cable L -> Speaker L (issue somewhere on this path, bad sound/dropout in speaker...

Transistor hum is there now, still measures the same ~10-15mV on left channel, ~130mV on the right. These are on the HK amp. What's even weirder is that the NAD amp shows ~5-10mV on the left channel and ~15-20mV on the right. So right channel worse than left on both amps, but on NAD both numbers...

Just got a chance to measure it. Worth noting is that the transistor hum also comes and goes. Lets the amp on for 10-ish minutes and then measured. The hum was not present, so I'll do another measurement when the hum shows up again. But for this first measurement I got something...

Your advice on caution is still valid, but I feel competent enough to do this since its just measuring voltage in the speaker outputs it looks like. But I appreciate the answer!

I read this article which led me to believe I have DC offset issues, and based on a few random comments I saw here and there about measuring it, I assumed I didn't have the equipment necessary to measure it. For some reason I got the impression a multi-meter wasn't enough. I'll take a look at...

My setup: Technics turntable, rega phono pre-amp, NAD integrated amp (or Harmon Kardon integrated amp), speakers. Issue: At seemingly random times, the left channel drops to like 10% volume and is super distorted. Fiddling around with the stylus, the inputs, the connections, etc. seem to...