BeePre sound signature

Thanks for the suggestion. Yes it has the same 20+db hum while being off, less without the 300B installed.
I have tighten everything and the ground lugs are conducting as expected but the hum is still present. I noticed with it switched off I can still hear music in my speakers even if that specific input is not selected and I can even adjust the volume on the selected input. I though maybe it's something with the selector switch so I bypassed the switch going from the rca jack to the beeQuiet input directly with no result. Even stranger the inputs the are no longer physically connected still pass a low level sound to my speakers.
Furthermore I can hear music with the beePre off if I touch any part of the ground such as the chassis with the positive part of the cable connected to my source.

If all else fails I might have to rebuild it.
 
Yeah, there's a funky ground issue at work here.  Is everything plugged into the regenerator? (amps, BeePre, and sources?)
 
With or without the regenerator it makes no difference. I decided to start from scratch so I disassembled it, got new capacitors, diodes, rectifiers, resistors and wires. This time I will be extra careful on everything. Just as well as I wanted to repaint the base anyway.
 
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