Questions about Decoupling Values and Tone

[makinrose]

Thanks for clarifying that for me. As you know it's difficult to get good engineering advice/info about tube amps. Some of trouble is that tone is so subjective but most of it is that many builders apply a lot of non-scientific thinking to them.

I figure that if I hear something is "lost" by getting rid of IM I ought to make changes elsewhere. It's better design in the tone into the amp than hope for it.