Mac Mini Apogee Duet A/V ampli: usb noise

Hello,
I have a problem using the mac mini with apogee duet to listen music through my AV ampli.
The problem is a disturbing noise. I think it is an interferrence coming from the duet card. This sound is very similar to the sound of a fax and it modulates together with the change of duet operations.
In order to stop this hum from the ampli I can only take off the firewire cable (but I have no sound of course) or I have to take off the adaptor minidisplay- vga that goes to the lcd.
The strange thing is that I also have a second monitor connected to the mac minii and it is also producing a noise (different though). In this case the noise seems more related to a ground loop.
Indeed, the monitor electrical plug has a ground. The LCD one has no ground.
So, if i unplug the monitor the hum stops. If I unplug the LCD, of course no change.
Can somebody help me on this? I contacted Apogee and they suggested me to lft the ground to the mac mini power plug. I was a little bit surprised abut this.
Anyway, I tried to have all plugs near in the same outlet.
Thanks for your help.

Hi,
Sorry I don't have an answer to your question but I have a question for you on a related topic. I notice you have a Mac Mini. The Apogee Duet requirement is for a Mac G4 or G5 with 1 GHz processor speed and 2 GB of RAM. I meet those requierments except that I have a Mac Mini (same as you). Other than the ground loop, have you had any problems running the Duet with a Mac Mini?
Thanks,
Jeff

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