Should I leave my equipment on ?


All solid state equipment, no tubes...Adcom 535 amp, Parasound pre amp, Cambridge Audio cd....should I leave everything on all the time, or turn off if I wont be using it for awhile ?

Does leaving everything on amount to a lot of energy wasted ?

Comments to this bid time neophyte are appreciated.
fredman

Showing 1 response by jsawhitlock

I have found in my system that when I leave all equipment on it sounds better. If for some reason I have to turn my system off to install a new peice or what ever I find my amps take the longest out of all my equipment to warm up, about 24 hours to get them to there best but after 2 hours I find them about 75% sounding good. With the digital I find only about one hour is needed. So I leave my equipment on 24/7!
I have done this for the past ten years, also you'll find most Co. telling you to leave on 24/7, for tubes it's another story, as I think you want to power up one hour befor listening, but after 4-5 hours of being powered up tube stuff seems to sound good. have a Sonic Frontiers sdf-2 D/A and it has a stand-by swith so I can fire up the tube output before I give a listen, the SDF-2 is alway on internaly except for the tube section. Sonic Frontiers says to turn on 30 minutes before to warm up and most tube Co. will say the same. Hope this helps and good Listening!