Matching tubes


I have a pair of Canary M350 Mono blocks. and a Cary Slp98P preamp. The tubes in the preamp are matched. I had one tube (A  300B) go bad in the power amp. Is it as important to have matching tubes in the Amps? Each 300B is biased manually. Thanks in advance. 
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if each 300b is biased manually does it really make that much difference going matched when only one tube goes bad??? I have just swapped out the "bad" tube for many years and never heard the difference. the amp I have now is self-biasing, which I really like and no more hand injuries doing manual biasing for me!