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Tube tester I can listen to

I have a bunch of tubes I bought used off the net, and while they all test fine, when you plug them in, they are either noisy or emit intermittent spitty noises.I have a TV-7 and Hickock Cardmatic tester and was wondering if there is an inexpensive tester out there where I can actually listen to the tube before using my preamp/amp as a guinea pig. I know about George Kaye's unit, but it is to expensive. Albert Porter mentioned one that New Sensor sells (Otto I think) but I could not locate it on thier site.
jig

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ethnosbad6
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Vacuum Tube Valley sells a " Dual triode preamp vacuum tube characterizer"...apparently a tube tester that tests noise and microphonics. Check out their website at:

http://www.vacuumtube.com/toppage31.htm

If you do buy one, let me know how it performs.

Neil
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