Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding?

As an A-B test, is there any noise difference when completely bypassing the EAR (pretending for a moment it doesn't even exist), and feeding the turntable (TT) directly into the ARC LS16 mk1 TT input (I realize the Bryston B60 does not have a TT input)? If the noise still exists, does it still exist when trying a different set of RCA cables (feeding the ARC LS16 mk1) ? I apologize if these questions/suggestions have already been put forth.

@lewm I have done that. A quarter of a turn for each transformer to be fully tied up. I could probably do a little more but I'd have to push it hard. I'm already ok with spending something extra for a service, I just hope they won't suggest anything crazy like changing all the tubes and a transformer. They also said how important it is to have matched pairs and that you won't really find them on regular online tube stores. I have found a very similiar thread also with a REF150 (non SE version), contacted the OP and I think there will be more to it than the screws. I also talked to a guy who builds tube amps and he told me I should have replaced all the tubes right a way as a prevention. Well, I think it will get resolved sooner the EAR preamp issue anyways. 

@dpop Well, I used to have an Onkyo A7 integrated with a decent phono stage, Tesla ARS840 speakers and Tesla NC450 turntable (all for about $700). Good times, no problems (just horrible acoustics) and lots of listening time with friends. :) 

Now I have built some amazing acoustic panels and clouds, hanged curtains and I'm left with a streamer, chord qutest dac and a solid state power amp. Thanks god the LS16 is working!

I have tried: different power cords, RCA interconnects, powering the EAR from a battery, pairing it with different components, changing its physical location within the room, placing it into a baking pot, shorting plugs (I think that proves it's not the turntable or cartridge issue), running a ground wire into a socket ground pin, ground wire to a apartment heating unit., lifting the ground on the EAR's power cord, turning off everything in the apartment except the audio stage. I even had my neighbors wifi routers unplugged for half a day, different times - late night, early morning.. nothing changed.

what worked: taking the EAR somewhere else, friends' places etc. (sounds lovely), covering the unit along with all the interconnects into a baking pot placed on the floor (as pictured before), holding the output interconnects with both hands (grouding it).

what I would like to try: few floors lower - same building, plugging it in in a friend's aparment in the next building, a power plant, different set of 12ax7 tubes, some kind of a filter, tube shields.

My electrician says it could be some kind of a server station near by, or a bitcoin mine. He's coming back soon to measure the grounding properly along with the DC presence. 

But really, if it was coming from the AC line, the battery would have solved it. But if it's coming from the air, how come the shorting plugs didn't work? (The result with the battery was the same noise + strong ground loop. The shorting plugs just acted as antennas, just like a regular RCA cable. And yes, I have made them properly and tested them with a DMM.)

I'm not sure you answered my question though; in your current living space, with the problems you're now encountering with the EAR turntable preamp, what happens to turntable noise when you plug your turntable directly into the AR preamp's turntable inputs? Is there any difference comparing that wiring connecting setup, to the noise encountered with the turntable plugged into the EAR (and then routed to the AR preamp)? I understand that with the RCA cables in the baking pot, noise has been reduced. I'm also wondering if shielding (design, or lack there of) on the Nagaoka MP200 is part of the problem here, along with RCA cable shielding. I completely understand that you want to continue using the EAR, but I'd still be interested in knowing if noise is reduced (and by how much) when going directly into the AR with the turntable. Just curious.      

@dpop I have tried these chains:

TT - EAR - Bryston B60

TT - EAR - Classe CP60 + CA200

TT - EAR - ARC LS16 + CA200 or REF150

TT - CP60 + CA200 (as the CP60 has a solid state phono stage) 

(the LS16 doesn't have a phono stage even tho it says "phono" on one of the lines, only SP preamps have phono stages)

the noise gets picked up only by the EAR, solid stages (I had 3, they were ok)

At first I thought the EAR was the problem but the seller told me he never experiences anything like this. So I took the EAR to my friend's place. Horrible wiring, cheap components - absolutely quiet and great sounding. 

Right now I have covered the input cables (TT>EAR) with a metallic sheath, there's a little improvement but I can tell it gets picked up by anything, the input, output, the grounding cable, maybe the power cord too. Maybe it's really a grounding problem as I measured 33 ohms between the grounding pin on the chassis and the grounding pin of the inlet. but I had it opened several times, the groundind pins are well soldered, I even had few capacitors changed. 

Sorry, I didn't realize that the LS16 didn't have an internal TT preamp. Is there any TT noise when going into the CP60's TT input (using the existing RCA cables that you're using with the EAR setup)?