Rogue Owners Unite


Hello Rogue Owners. The goal of this thread is to let Rogue owners discuss the tubes they have tried in their amps/preams and discuss other tweeks that have been implemented with success. It would also be nice if you'd post your system components to help us compare notes.
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Showing 2 responses by spudspot

After reading enough of these comments and reviews of Rogue, I decide to plunge $700 for a "rarely" used Rogue 66 preamp from a seller on AudioGon just to find out that it does not work !@#$%^&*. It won't power up and none of the tubes light up. This is my first entry into tubes and the experience has not been good at all. Does anyone know what could be wrong?

In any case, I also have no idea how old the tubes are. The seller claims that the unit has been serviced by Aronov (whoever that is) and the tubes have less then 10 hours on them. How can I find out about the condition of the tubes? Assume that I will have the unit repaired but since I have never listen to tubes before, how do I know if they are good or bad and whether some other tubes being mentioned here are better?
First, I 'd like to thanks everyone for helping out. I was hoping that it was a fuse too but it turns out to be a lot worse than that. I have contacted Mark and he indicated that there is fuse in the power supply. Before that when I first received the preamp, I was very suspicious of the sound of moving part in the PS like something came loose. Yep, it sure is. As I open the PS, I found that the circuit board is not screwed to the case and couple of the heavy gauge soldered wires got broken off. In addition, one of the soldered wire to the CD RCA input jack inside the main preamp casing is also broken off.

I doubt if this is from shipping vibration since there is no damage to the box or the exterior of the unit. I have filed a dispute to Audiogon but not sure if it helps any. The seller has been ignoring all attempt to communicate. Oh well, look like I will have to take it to an audio technician or perhap send it back to Mark for repair and complete check over. Who knows what else is wrong with it.