Always ON?

Ari, are you saying that as a nation, we should go on squandering our resources, because (pick one)

a. It's a good thing (just ask Martha)

b. It's not going to make any difference anyway (oil is going up to $9/gal. no matter what we do.)

I always leave all my equipment on .Some of my amps especially the yba passion 1000 and the gryphon antileon signature (can also be used as room heater in the winter) take hours to equilibrate.Most electronic devices are subjected to a voltage surge when turn on which can lead to failures.Solid state devices like to operate at steady temperatures and to avoid fatigue failure due to thermal cycling which occurs everytime you turn your equipment on or off.I have very little tube equipment and cannot speak to the best options there.

My last solid state equipment lasted 20 years before I grew tired of it and needed to upgrade. I turned it off after every listening session and it never failed once because of thermal cycling.

Chuck

My experience (with my amp) is the same as Chuck's, except I haven't upgraded it yet.

Tubes I turn on 1/2 hour to 1 hour before listening.

I leave my phono preamp on all the time.

I have a Sony XA777ES that I leave on all of the time because it has been modded with black gate capacitors, and they take hours to warm up. I'm talking about 12+ hours.

I don't know what's best for the equipment, but I know leaving them on sounds the best.