• hum chasing
    

    =earthing unless I'm mistaken?

    IME, not always. Consider....
    1) Power supply ripple
    2) Heater - Cathode insulation breakdown
    3) Parasitic Oscillation demodulating down into audio bandwidth
    4) Earth loop/s.
    5) Heater supply cable routing
    6) Others I can't think of right now.
    7) Sonia!

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