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Do I have tired tubes?

During the summer when I went on vacation I unplugged my Sonic Frontiers Line 1 pre, my Musical Fidelity A3 CD, and Anthem MCA 20 amp. The pre I bought used and was around 2 years old when I bought it just over a year ago. It has the stock 6922 tubes in it. When I got back home and plugged everything back in by bass was a bit muddied and the midbass was a few dB louder than normal. The resut is now boomy poorly defined bass. Does anyone think that the tubes are the culprit? Perhaps they are due for replacement?
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cytocycle
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Change the tubes! I just bought some Lamm with 6922 and a CJ Premier 14 preamp and both need new tubes and the prior owners never thought there was a problem. Input tubes like 6922 are inexpensive also.

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