PS Audio P300/Rogue 66 preamp wierdness


I recently purchased a new Rogue 66pre. Now, in case your not familiar,it is a inverting polairty tube pre-amp with 2-12AU7 tubes and a seprate power supply. It only seems to operate well with the P300 in the PS2 multi-wave setting (not bad in SS5, SS6 and SF7). Normal sine wave at 60 hz is not to bad but as you increase the sine wave setting past 60 hz I start to hear a humming sound which increases with intensity as I approach 105 to 120 hz settings where its unbareable.

Now, at other multiwave settings such as SS1,SS3, SF4, SS8 and SS9 I hear a wierd thumpimg, humping sound (pardon my electronic dumbness). Therefore, cetainly can;t play it in these modes.

Does anyone know what the deal is here ? Anyone else have a Rogue 66 and P300 and encounter the same thing ? No problem when I have the preamp plugged into wall and only CD plugged into P300. I only plug the pre and cd into the P300.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Assoicated equipment: Bryston 3B ST amp, Arcam 8 SE CD
Mirage OM6, MIT T2 biwire speaker cab
Bryston and WW EQ 111 interconnects

thanks,
Paul
nb_dude

Showing 1 response by liguy

The power supply in your amp is designed for 115 VAC 60 HZ input. The filter caps in the power are designed to filter ripple at 120 HZ if your amp has a full wave rectifier. If you increase the input frequency to 120 HZ, the ripple is at 240 HZ and the filter capacitors are not being given the opportunity to charge enough, therefore not filtering the ripple and becomming audible.