Loud pop, the left channel went silent. All tubes in the integrated amp remained lit and appeared to be normal. The left channel tube fuse had blown. Can a tube short and cause a fuse blow but without causing the tube to fail? It is probably just a bad fuse but I’ve never had a fuse fail without a cause after initial startup (e.g., first 20 hours). There are 125 hours on the Cary SLI-80HS integrated amp now.
‘Also, can a preamp section tube at EOL cause something like this? After the first 100 hours of run-in I replaced the 6922 tubes with a pair of beloved NOS tubes with many hours on them. They also remained lit throughout the event.