[Geoff St. Germain]

The long extension cord spread across the room arose because apparently I have a grounding problem with the outlets on the side of the room where the subs are. I got some mean 60 Hz hum when I tried plugging the amp in on that side and running the RCA from my AVR to the Crown. Nasty stuff. I have more stuff to figure out now. I was only using the outlets for that lamp before and I know that the plug by the AVR is fine. Time to break out the receptacle tester and do all the outlets in the house now.