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Turning on B+ without heaters with aikido

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I just built an aikido pre and get this horribly distorted, cracking, fuzzy sound at the output. I forgot to hook up the heater supply and ran it for about a minute before I found the problem. Could this have caused a problems with the tubes.
 
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