I've owned many very quiet tube preamps. Are you hearing tube noise with the volume knob set at regular listening levels in between CDs/LPs? Or are you turning the volume all the way up with no music playing to see if you can hear any noise? I find that on a lot of tube preamps, if I turn the volume all the way up and do not play music I can hear some noise....but I really do not see the point in doing this. With the volume knob set at regular listening levels my tube preamps have been mostly quiet.
If you are having this problem at normal listening levels, have you tried changing out some of the tubes?
If you are having this problem at normal listening levels, have you tried changing out some of the tubes?