Hello!
I got a couple of new 6080 tubes to try. So far, they heat up consistently. The original, superglued 6080 was finicky and finally stopped heating up altogether.
Now I have a reappearing static in the right ear. Sometimes it comes up as the tubes heat up. Sometimes, especially after I've inserted the tubes "freshly" it takes a while to come on. Its affected by movement on 6080 slight left-to-right movement brings the static in and out. I resoldered the red wires on the 6080 socket. I tried to tighten the sockets up a bit to better hold the tube pins. Loose pins?
Thoughts on what I can try to pin this down? Haha, no pun intended. Each change makes me think I've fixed it but then it comes back!
Thanks for your help.