Rogue Owners Unite

Nice thread idea. I've got a 99 Magnum, but I've only had it for a couple of weeks now and haven't had the opportunity (or the inclination) to do much in the way of tweaking it yet. I've heard a lot about filling the power supply, and will likely be interested in trying it out in the future, though the noise floor is already pretty darn low (aside from some negligible tube rush). Where have folks had the best luck drilling the hole to fill it? How big of a hole are we talking about? I am pretty sure that I've seen more detailed instructions someplace, I just can't recall where now. I did order some vibrapods earlier this week and am hoping to experiment with them this weekend. Also haven't felt the need to experiment with new tubes yet, though I'm sure I will down the road (I'm new to the 6SN7's, so they're virgin territory for me). Anyone tried tube dampeners of any sort? The simplified version of the rest of the system is a Meridain 508.24, the Rogue 99 Magnum, Bryston 4b-st, and Thiel 2.3's with Homegrown Super Silver IC's and Kimber Monocle XL cables. I have noticed that the 99 is super-sensitive to vibration and interaction with other gear, (or other remotes, for that matter) -- no mystery why they took the power supply off-board here. All told, I'm a serious Rogue convert and can't yet imagine wanting to improve a thing (not that this means for a second that I'm about to stop trying...;)

Thanks, David, sounds like a snap. I'll likely wait until upgrade fever hits me again and then pull the sand trick as a relatively painless way of keeping the upgrade deamons satiated for a spell (they do tend to come in waves). First off, my room is desperately in need of some fine tuning, but that's another story....

Yea, Winoguy17, that's a good question. At first I was keeping the gain at its lowest setting in order to get a little more travel out of the volume knob, but at times it sounded like the bass was a little bloated, or possibly just over-accentuated, at lower volumes this way, so I've been leaving the gain at dead even instead. I didn't test this one out too critically, and it was fairly early on and very impressionistic (besides just not making a whole lot of sense, logically), but I'd be interested to hear whether anyone else has found that the gain setting has an effect on the overall balance of the sound. (That said, the system has been changing a lot lately, so my impressionistic read on this one could have actually been attributable to a whole host of other variables as well).

Buckingham, regarding the "sandbox" fix for a humming power supply, that one was officially dreampt up and/or approved by the guys at Rogue. It might be worth giving them a call to see what their take on it is, but I believe that they have actually encouraged folks to do it in the past, in which case it may not affect the warranty at all. Worth asking, I guess.