Speaking as a new tube newbie, if something like that happened to me, I would want to find out why so I can avoid it the next time. Was the tube old and had reached its end of life or what?
Did I just ruin my amp
First, this is my first tube amp hence the dumb mistake. Over the past few days my stereo has been making an intermittent high pitch squealing sound which I thought was caused by some ground or feedback issue but now see was a power tube dying. Yesterday my wife said she heard some weird sound coming from the speakers. She called me in and I saw what looked like fire in one of the power tubes. I immediately unplugged everything and that is where things now stand. Help on what to do next would be appreciated. I have a full set of extra power tubes which I was thinking of putting in the amp but I wanted to hear from more experienced people before doing this. Thanks.