Don told me to let the tubes run for 20 hours. So far in 8 hours, no change. One tube is 10x louder than the other. I can hear it outside the room. Swapped the cables left to right and the higher noise tracks the tube. The lower noise one is still ridiculous. I'm not sure how you guys are putting up with this. I have to get to 8 inches of my tweeters to hear small hiss from the Shunguangs.
Don says the preamp is fine and he does get an occasional bad one but his volume is high and he is okay with that. Only one source for these I understand so are the sellers actually listening to the tubes before shipping out?