I tried moving the power cable over being plugged directly into the wall (it was in a power strip before). Still have some static.
I have REW installed on the PC and it has a section to play sign waves. I played sign waves from 1,000Hz down to ~45Hz to see if I could hear any static while just playing tones.
I never heard any static, but when I had the tones playing ~300Hz and pulled the volumn pot up from 9o'clock up to 12o'clock I could hear the right channel tonality changing (getting more bright maybe). There does seem to be some issue internally to the Crack. Just not sure what it is.
I've re-flowed all of the joints, and made sure there was solder on all the joints.
I had several days of listening to the Crack without the Speedball installed and I never heard any distortion.
We are talking very faint distortion. But it's still there, you know.
The distortion is only happening when the volume is louder.
It's not there when the volume is lower.
This is my first tube amp, so is it possible that distortion is just 'a thing' with tube amps at higher listening levels?
My headphones are 300 ohm (Sennheiser HD6XX)