Leave it on?

We use a Yamaha receiver for our TV sound and just leave it on all the time. It has been on for several years now with no issues. FWIW.

@baylinor 

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. 

What if your amps don’t even have an on/off switch, just an IEC?!  I just leave them powered up all the time.  SMc Audio now uses thermal-magnetic switches (think Swiss Digital Fuse Box) that serves the purposes of both equipment protection (i.e., fuse) and on/off switch.  After sourcing two of them from SMc, I mounted them in-line, in the wall, one for each amp and replaced the line fuses in both amps with copper rod.  At least I can now turn the amps on/off without unplugging them.

For the past 10 years or so, I have been content to have all solid state equipment that I can leave powered up all the time.  It has been a change for me to now have a DAC with tubes that I need to remember to power down.  Even though it seems to take less than an hour to sound its best, my sporadic listening schedule (I often don’t know when or if I will have time to listen each day) makes it more difficult to have equipment that requires some forethought and warm up. 

I do unplug everything when thunderstorms are eminent (seems too often lately) and when I am going to be away from home more than a day or two.  I also occasionally power down my digital chain (server/streamer/DAC) as suggested by @grannyring and seconded by @mikelavigne but I was previously unaware of the Roon clear cache button, so I will also try that. 

No on and off switch anywhere, the designer obviously meant for the unit to be powered on 24/7.

Everything but the amplifier stays in 24/7, the amp usually gets turned off before I go to bed.  Everything gets unplugged when bad weather is approaching.  All of my equipment is solid state.

What if your amps don’t even have an on/off switch, just an IEC?!  I just leave them powered up all the time.  SMc Audio now uses thermal-magnetic switches (think Swiss Digital Fuse Box) that serves the purposes of both equipment protection (i.e., fuse) and on/off switch.  After sourcing two of them from SMc, I mounted them in-line, in the wall, one for each amp and replaced the line fuses in both amps with copper rod.  At least I can now turn the amps on/off without unplugging them.

@mitch2 Nice. I’m jealous of your magnetic switches.  My upgraded DNA 0.5 has the power switch disconnected so I’ve gotta unplug my amp to turn it off.  But I leave it on all the time anyway, unless I’m going away for at least a few days, so it’s no biggie but still it’d be nice to have the power switch working.  BTW, Patrick at SMcAudio said I probably prolonged the life of my amp by years by leaving it on.   All I know is the thing lasted 30 years with me leaving it on.