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Offline shooter

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microphonics?
« on: December 01, 2016, 02:19:14 pm »
Can external conditions, bias, gain, impedance etc, cause a tube to "act" microphonic? 
I have a condition where any tube in the previous gain stage works fine, but when they are moved to the next stage, they are all  microphonic.

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Re: microphonics?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2016, 03:35:15 pm »
if the socket itself is doing something bad, I think so.  I.e. sometimes the sockets can start conducting a bit and you'll get really whacky behavior.  (i.e. the problem doesn't follow the tube, it stays with a socket).  This is invalid if the sockets are ceramic, though.  Sluckey taught me all this :P

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