I bought Peachtree Nova 150 around 10 months ago. While I was very satisfied with the amp to begin with, I slowly started getting more bothered by the high frequency buzzing it makes when it is powered on. The sound comes from the device itself, not from the speakers, very high frequency, similar to the sound from old CRT screens. It is very noticeable when standing close to the device, but if it’s otherwise quiet I am also hearing it as long as I am in the same room. And though I probably will be able to ignore it while playing music, it does bother me as long as there’s a pause in the music or while watching movies. I don’t think I am being overly sensitive, I have other electric devices that make far more noise, like my projector or hard drive RAID, but it is just the high pitched whine from the Peachtree Nova that bothers me. With simple measuring software on my phone, the sound is measurable from about 1 meter from the device, and shows up as a sound with a peak of 8 kHz and a smaller peak at 16 kHz.
After I sent complaints to the dealer I bought it from, the the amp was sent back for repair. Twice. Both times it came back with absolutely no changes to this issue, as far as I can hear. The guy who did the repairs measured the sound after the last repair to be "significantly reduced". But I can’t hear any difference. He indicates that the current in my house can be the culprit, but I have also tried it in my office building, both in grounded and ungrounded outlets, without any changes to the buzzing. What I haven’t tried yet is any kind of expensive AC filter to deal with noise. Could I expect that such a filter (fx
IsoTek Corvus) would make any difference here? I am hesitant to try it, since I wouldn’t expect that a relatively expensive amp (for me) would need such a thing just to function properly.
That the repair shop claims the sound is "reduced" indicates to me that some kind of buzzing from the device itself is to be expected, just that it should be at a significantly lower level than what I am experiencing. Is this on par with with what other owners of Peachtree Nova have experienced - could I expect it to be dead quiet?
It seems to be the same issue discussed in
this thread.
