Calling BAT amp/preamp owner


Hello,
First of all, my set up is vk75se, vk50se, krell kav300cd, and sf grand piano. I just notice yesterday (I didn't really pay attention to this before) that my system produces quite loud popping noise(static?) from speakers when I mute or turn the volume to zero. I am wondering if my fella bat owners experience this too. I tried to pin point the problem but got some mixed results. First, I suspected a bad driver tube, because the popping noise appears on the same side as the bad tube is (I swapped tubes left to right vice versa), but when I use my Krell HTS preamp, this popping noise is not there when I mute/turn down vol to zero. Which mean the driver tube is ok. I'm confuse...
heeengky

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Hello, I just replaced both 6H30 tubes with the new ones(sovtek) and Tenniswino is right, that seems to solve the problem. No more loud pops when muted. Thanks guys.
Thanks Sidssp, Jfrech, Tenniswino for the inputs. In that case, I'll try replacing my 6H30 tubes with new ones. Do you think any other tubes may play role in this too?