CAJames
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Posts: 2020
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I don't know that "wiggling" a tube re-establishes the connection with the socket, if anything I'd say it loosens the connection. The sockets in the amp are high quality, but they have a finite lifetime, and wiggling tubes seems like a good way to hasten their demise. I'm a big believer in socket savers and Deoxit and leaving tubes alone until I want to swap them out. Also using a pin straightener before I put any 9 pin tube in the system.
If you're hearing, or think you're hearing, distortion play it back and listen again. Play it back a little louder or softer. There are certainly distortions in some of my recordings I couldn't hear until I got my Decware system, but I'd guess a lot of times its just a glitch in your front end, esp. if you are streaming.
Just my 2 cents.
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