Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime?

Chadnliz, the overall concept is the individual believing he can do whatever he wants because he can afford it, and everybody else is on their own despite how his actions might effect them. It's a selfish and greedy point of view totally lacking any sense of social responsibility.

I am doubtful that many, if any, readers of this thread who leave their Class A amps on 24/7 will change their approach and turn them off at night to start saving energy.

I'm sure you understand now, and I'm glad to know where you stand on the issue.

Tvad - Class A amps consumes about 8x rated output power per channel. Leaving on 100W class A amp will waste 1600W of power. I don't even leave on my class D amp because I don't see any good reason for it. It doesn't take long to warm up the amp - maybe 30 min. max and keeping it powered down extends the life of the amp (in my opinion).

Wow and I thought this was an audio related site, I never expected to get lectured, called greedy or socially iresponsible and from what I read nowhere was anyone asking that such issues be brought to the forum.

Is there an electrical engineer out there who can shed some empirical information as to wether any damage/accessive wear can occur to ss gear being left on as opposed to on and off an a regular basis. Also, how would you compute the cost (per hour?) of audio components.

...from what I read nowhere was anyone asking that such issues be brought to the forum.
Chadnliz (System | Threads | Answers)

The unnecessary use of electricity is pertinent to the question posed.