Hard drive and mouse noise over speakers

Hello all,
I have a iMac and just recently have noticed hard drive, mouse and buzzing noise coming over my powered speakers. I have been a home recoding musican for the last 10 years and just recently moved to California. Since I've been here I'm now hearing all of this unwanted hard drive, mouse and various other noises coming thru my powered speakers. Even turning down my speakers to 0, having a deadicated power strip/noise surpessor on ALL of my devices, im still getting these noises. Like moving the mouse you hear staic thru the speakers.
Any idea where to start looking into this problem? Need a solution as this is killing me.
thanks for your help in advance.
- M

I hope this helps...
I also had a problem with fan noise. It not only creates more than normal noise, but i notices a difference in my battery life... it was really bad.
Well after using istat pro i notices a activity that took up about 85%-95% of my processes.... And stated 'Canon ip5000'.... this was my printer that wasn't attached!
I opened activity monitor to search for this process... i couldn't find it under that name. However, i did notice a printer agent of sorts (i can't remember what it was called).
Anyway, after quitting this process my fan almost immediately went from 6000rpm to 2000rpms and the noise was almost gone! And my battery life that was sitting on 24 mins (after a full charge and 40 mins!!) and then went up to 1hr15mins!
What a difference.
I'm using tiger... and the only difference that remember doing was updating the printer driver... hey presto.
I'm sure that is the issue with a lot of people... that some sort of deamon is running in the back ground and is taking an alwful lot of processor time!!!
Hope this helps!

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