Short entry just to preview a new development; more detail about this investigation will soon follow. 

The beatbox I and Q signals are too small at the ADC! I was able to reduce the RMS out of loop ALS sensitivity (arm locked on POX) by 300Hz with G=10 SR560s between the beatbox output and the ADC whitening chassis input. Increasing the beat note amplitude via RF amplifier had no positive effect. 

There is still a reasonable gap between this and the beatbox's noise levels, as measured with a marconi. There may be additional headroom for whitening gain; the SR560 maximum output range is smaller than the ADC input range. 

The high frequency noise has >0.5 coherence with the PDH error signal above a kHz or so, but not much below that. 

We should probably either modify the output whitening of the beatbox, or introduce some (variable?) whitening gain in a seperate circuit.