AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*) (10/21/87)
I suggest you invest in a good pair of diagonal wire cutters. Apply them to the speaker leads of the stereo next time this occures. A much more elegant and nondestructive fix would be to nuke your old acoustic modem, step into the 80s, and buy one that has a direct connection which is immune to ambient sound. Or hack a matching transformer into your old modem, if a replacement is hard to come by. Acoustic couplers simply *lose*. Whoever turned up the stereo probably didn't have the foggiest idea this could happen... _H* -------