I have been reworking my RIAA preamp the past weeks - main effort to install a SALAS shunt in the HV.
I had some problems looking like instability of the DC. I also noted that every on/off cycle, the problem got worse. And while developing, I would switch the preamp on an off often, to see the effect of the tweaks, such as setting the shunt cuirrent.

Later I found that one 6N9S tube was 'dying', really, it went black, but intermittent.
The heater wires probably had been stretched a bit and in cold state they made some contact (measured 3-4 ohm) but when heated up it lost contact. The effect cascaded into the Vb, and was seen on both outputs similarly.

I conclude The [Russian, Reflektor brand, big logo] tube is very sensitive to the heater.

I had the two tubes running in series from a medium impedance 12 V source (IRF250, gate connected to drain via 100k resistor and a 300 uF cap: relatively slow start of 2 secs. But too fast probably...