Amps Always On - System Power Up Sequence

Tan43... Thats the way I do it , everything is on all the time , volume is down at night . Break down rate seems to be non existent . Been doing it this way for years .

Agree, if you are leaving the AMP on, you might just as well leave the preamp on. The ONLY reason i could see not to leave it on, is if the preamp is a tubed model. Though preamp tubes do not wear out nearly as fast as power amp tubes. i have a VAC Standard with four 12a? tubes and i just leave it on anyway. The VAC has not holes or openings and only gets a little warm, so the tubes seem to be lightly loaded.
My amp is connected to the Bryston preamp mute switch, so the amp turns off automatically if I turn on the mute. nice.

When I had solid state I left everything on all the time. Never any problems. Now that Ive got tubes, I turn them off but leave the source components on, (no tubes here) Ive always heard that the enemy of tubes is the surge when you turn it on. Once up and running, tubes like to stay on all the time. All the dealers, techs and other gurus tell me to turn tubes off when not listening. What do other people do in this situation

Everything gets turned off here, for two reasons. The first is the fire risk, and the second is concern for the environment. I think it is really wrong to add even more emissions, and I say this even though we produce nearly (but not quite) all our own electricity.
The proper way to deal with this is to have amplifiers that turn themselves off when they are not used, just like many subwoofers. Such amplifiers are rare, but I have one in the bedroom and it is very neat, with very low standby consumption (an Ava Maestro 50, just good enough for modest bedroom use). It is tucked away in a wardrobe and connected to a Chromecast Audio by way of its optical input. So whenever I want to hear either streamed music or internet radio, all I have to do is get out my phone. The amp is invisible, which I also like (less clutter) even if in this case it is actually very elegantly made. Why can't we have all our amps out of sight and turning themselves on and off?

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