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Wharfedale 8.2 active monitors hiss when nothing playing?

Hi,
Upon several recommendations from this and other forums I bought a pair of Wharfdale 8.2 Diamond pro active monitor speakers.

Ive just plugged the power in, turned them on and without even plugging in a music cable yet I can hear a hiss (on 1/4 volume, which is quiet).

This is extremly frustrating, does anyone have any ideas why this may be happening?

Mixer hiss

I just picked up the Zoom H2 the other day with plans to use it for field recording. I'd like to ask an opinion on a field mixer please.

I'm looking at a small and inexpensive field mixer to enable use of headphones with a couple mics. I want to be able to send the signal from this mixer to both my video camera AND the H2. I have my eye on the Rolls MX34.

Hiss - either too much hiss or too little volume, help!

Hey all,
I would really appreciate some help as I'm pulling my hair out here.

I have the following very simple setup:

Shure SM58 Mic -> PreSonus FP10 (FireWire) -> Cubase SX3

If I set all my FP10 gain nobs to unity (straight up/centred) the volume on the PC barly registers. I figure this is fine as the SM58 needs a fair bit of gain.

Stereo mix not showing up on Vista + mic hiss problem

I have Windows Vista and I tried recording from the stereo mix on Audacity and fruity loops. I tried looking around different websites and none of them have seem to have found a solution to my problem. I right clicked the volume icon and selected recording devices then I right clicked and selected "Show disconnected and disabled devices" still nothing shows up except the microphone. :(

hiss hiss hiss

I'm running the following setup & I can't seem to eliminate the hiss in my vocals. The quality of the vocals themselves sounds great, but there is always a hiss there nonetheless:

M-Audio Sputnik Microphone -> PreSonus BlueTube DP Pre-Amp -> M-Audio Firewire 1814 I/O -> Garageband on a MacBook.