Leave it on?

For those of you that leave your gear on like dacs, streamers and SS amps I have a tip to try.   Every couple of weeks or so shut them down for 5-10 minutes and then restart. While I don’t understand why, I can say it did something positive to sound quality. A couple of designers I respect told me about this.  

music management software, servers, dacs, and network switches need to be re-booted often to clear stored data cashes that will build up and cause issues. all the meta data gums things up. Roon has a ’clear cashe’ button that helps under ’setup’.

Very true. Amplifiers also benefit sonically in my experience.  

After trying the always on or turned off ways multiple times, I have adopted the following method:

Turning off every piece of equipment that has an on and off feature in front of the unit and always leaving on the ones that only have a on and off function on the back of the unit. I am not gonna try to outsmart the designers any longer. It's common sense to me.

Treat your SS equipment like a old lady's dress. Once it's on, leave it on.

using the national average of 19 cents per kwh the cost to leave an amp that uses 85 watts just being on would cost $166.45 in electricity a year .  So look at what your amp uses when not being played but left on 24/7/365 and decide if it's worth especially if your electricity cost more than national average .