How to Avoid Mobile Phone Interference w/ Speakers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 7, 2006 @11:40AM from the nextel-phones-are-the-worst dept.

EnzoTen asks: "Everyone has been sitting at their desk rockin, jamming, or groovin to their favorite tunes. You are in a trance, getting work done... then... BZZZPT... BZZTP..BTT.. BZZZZZZZZPTT... the blood curdling noise of your cell phone interferes with your desktop speakers playing 4 times the volume of your music and it takes everything in you not to flip your desk upside down, or throw your mobile phone across the room. Is there anyway to avoid mobile phones interfering with speakers? Are there speakers available that are shielded from this type of interference?"

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happens to monitors too by schweini · 2006-04-07 11:55 · Score: 4, Interesting

i'm frankly a bit surprised that so many people don't know what you're talking about - i know it very well, and it even affects my monitors.i actually like it -you get to see how long the cell-tower to phone negotiating takes, since it starts happening a couple of seconds before the phone actually rings or receives a SMS.
the solution, i guess, is simply to use more expensive shielded speakers, since that's what faraday cages do.