Thought it was a noisy tube too. Replaced all the tubes and the sound was exactly the same, so that's not the problem.
Tubes from Lamm? Some preamps are very sensitive to noisy tubes, even good quality brand new tubes. Sometimes you need to select only the finest low noise tubes and even then you can get one that doesn't work. The sound you describe sounds just like what happen in my CJ preamp. I'm out of ideas unless you have some other tubes upstream?.