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In Reply to: hum from new tube posted by scruffy_ on February 7, 2017 at 14:46:30:
Scruffy,Another possibility for the hum could be due to leakage in the 6SN7 you identified as emitting a small amount of hum. Such a tube can work perfectly without any hum in some circuits (such as driver applications) whereas in other circuits while otherwise functioning properly will cause some hum (such as in a gain stage).
Thus if you have such a tube don't assume it is bad and thus dump it. Instead be aware there are applications you can use it that the leakage does not induce the hum.
Per a well-known tube store: You cannot correlate leakage with wear as many new tubes have leakage and obviously no wear. Where leakage is a serious problem relates primarily to applications higher than the audio frequency range.
Edits: 02/08/17
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