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Restored Philco 46-420 code 121 has slight low pitch hum.
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I do not think changing speaker could possibly help.

Some very low level of hum is present on many DC-DC sets.
There was once, about 2 years ago, one chassis I did that had pretty pronounced hum, and I could never locate the source; I ended up lowering the output tube's input resistance where it was being picked up and it too care of most of it.

Sometimes it is a wire that runs where it shouldn't, like nearby the power path while being a part of some high impedance input.
A tracer would probably help locating the point where it starts.

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RE: Restored Philco 46-420 code 121 has slight low pitch hum. - by morzh - 03-19-2019, 01:16 PM



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