I used banana plugs, but removed them on the speaker side.
I didn't try removing them on the receiver or amp side though. The hum is the sound from the drivers and the hiss type sound is from the tweeters. I tried to move power cords as far apart as possible, but read somewhere to try seperating the digitol/audio cables from the speaker wires as well. Don't know how it is possible to seperate them all but I'll try anything. It would be a perfect world if as you stated they would be silent when not playing anything. I'm sure that it must distort the sound a little.

I must admit the more I listen the M80's the more i'm enjoying the sound.

Thanks for the advice.

Troy


M80 VP150 4-QS8 EP600 Monitor Audio S8 NAD T 773 Anthem MCA3 II Hitachi 57" projection