Amp broken?


Yesterday I was preparing to sit down and have a listen on my tube pre/amp so I turned them all on and let them sit
for about an hour to warm up.

The source CDP was on but I hadn't hit play.
I dozed off for a bit and was awakened by the sound of one of my speaker woofers flapping uncontrollably!
Naturally I jumped up and turned everything off as quickly as possible!

It was similar to a sine wave or something like that being played.

I thought it was very odd because I hadn't changed my setup in a few months and things have been working perfectly for all that time.

I decided to unplug the preamp and cdp and swap the speaker terminals to see if I could narrow down the problem to something upstream or the amp or speakers themselves.

I also took off the shroud covering the amp to see if any of the tubes weren't working.

I started the amp up and after the 2 second warmup the other speaker started to flap (and I also noticed the tweeter was going also, the first time I missed it because I was in shock I think!) Also all the tubes looked like
they were lighting up.

Does my problem ring any bells as to what might be the culprit here?

Should I bother testing anything else? I had already unplugged the unit and let it sit for a considerable time before I did my second test!
geoffgarcia

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nope, not a cj, I've checked all fuses.
Swapped the tube also, no impact.
I'm gonna send it in to the company later this week
Sorry for not posting this earlier!
It turned out to be the set of small tubes on my amp!
I'm not sure if they are input tubes? or what they are called...anyway, I took the amp to the dealer, they gave me a full diagnostic eval on the amp and preamp that I brought and told me that one of the tubes had simply gone bad!
They gave me a new tube for about 15$, gave me a tour of their factory!
Thanks very much to the staff at Rogue! Very helpful and SUPER friendly!
zoya, does it sound like its a tube problem?
I'm a complete newbie to tubes, so I'll try this when I get home! but all the same I think I'll just flip flop all the tubes at once rather than wait an hour between each swap as is recommended by the manufacturer to let excess voltage clear!
Thanks, I've already turned just the amp on and the problem is still there.
I tried swapping out 4 of my big tubes (KT88's) and the problem didn't change sides.
But I didn't try swapping sides on the 6 smaller tubes yet.

I'll try that when I get home.