Tube amp on/off: best practice?

Turn tube amps of when not using them in general. If you're going to space listening sessions by 30 minutes or so, best to leave the amp on. Tubes have a finite life. In a perfect world, you'd leave them on all the time...but it's not a perfect world.

Sequence- in "Get Better Sound," Jim Smith is pretty emphatic about "amplifer ON last, OFF first." Something about getting any junk out of the system by turning tube components other than amps on first and off last.....

If you lose a tube while you are out, the speaker may get fried. Jallen

I agree with Elevick completely. I've had many tube amps over the years. One of which had a output tube go bad. Music was not playing, but there was a god-awful screech coming out of the left channel, then I saw a red flame shoot up through the top vent, followed by smoke. Thank god I was home. I lived in a condo and I don't want to think what could have happened to the seven other families in the building. I've been using digital amps for a while now.

ok, so here's another reason I don't want my lovely wife reading Audiogon.

Thank you guys for the reality-check.

I leave my pro-ject tube phono preamp on all the time. Is this ok?

Rest of my system is Audio Refinement SS gear.

TIA,

Scott