Leave it on or turn it off?

Glen, Living in california, we turn it all off when not using. "Kill A Watt" is our moto out here!
We have a CA300. When it was in the 2 channel setup, we would just let it warm up for a while before listening. Now that it's in the HT, we just turn it on right when we sit down to watch a movie. (hey, Steve!)

Hi Glen; 1439 makes good points, but another possibility, and the one I use, is to turn the amp on in the morning to warm up, and off after listening at night. I have a McCormack DNA-2DX Rev. A (also 300 wpc, like your Classe'). It runs fairly hot while playing, but drops into standby mode after no signal for 10 minutes. Still, I prefer to be 50% environmentally friendly, and so turn it off at night. Cheers. Craig

Glen
As Angela does, for HT turn on and sit down.
For Stereo same as Garfish or if possible turn it on at noon for listening at night, then off. 5-6 hours warm up is OK for normal listening. When I´m going for some tweaking or critical listening with my friends I warm up longer.

I used to turn on my gear in the a.m. and turn it off at night, but lately I've been leaving my amp and pre-amp on and only shutting off the cd player. Things seem to be fine when I turn the CD player on and off, but my amp and pre-amp only seem to sound really great after being being left on for 2 1/2 days. This has been a consistant thing, after shut down it takes about 55-60 hours of use until everything falls beautifully into place again. Now I'm wary of ever shutting down, as I just don't feel like losing the"magic" each time. Next time I go away for a weekend, I'll shut down, and pay close attention to see exactly how long it takes to sound right again.

I'm with Angela.--However as many people will be reading this,and applying the answers to their situation--- I have a Moscode 600.A while back I had to have my main amp worked on,and had to use the 600 as the *only* amp. It sounded absolutely horrible /compared to #1 amp.After 24 hrs of having been on,it sounded tolerable--as in quite an improvment. (amps differ) We use the listening room as a make shift sauna in the summertime. DWP loves us.The Cj 5 monos make a great slow cooker.