You might have had a poor contact on a critical contact on the tube pins and the socket, but your description is also consistent with a shorted tube also. Check the bias on that tube. If it is still showing proper bias then every thing is probably well. If not you may have a damaged resistor in the bias circuit. FWIW the KT77's were discussed at some length on AA tubes forum. It seems that there have been a lot of them with undersized pins - you might do a little research on this forum for the background on this problem.
Jolida 1000RC Tube ???
I just received my fresh batch of new tubes from Cryoset (KT77) for my Jolida 1000RC. I replaced all of my older tubes even though they are still in good excellent working condition, anyway, all the tubes were replaced, the system was re biased, etc when I went to turn on the system tube number 8 sounded like loud POP. This was strange since I have never experience a weird noise like that. I turned off the system immediately re check the tube and re-started the amp. Everything seems to be working fine now but now I am concern about this tube that sounded like a lOUD POP, wondering if the tube came in slightly damaged or something else went wrong.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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