Subwoofers: Do you turn them off when you are done for the day?

Interesting post. My main rig which does double duty for HT and music is in my Family/Theater room. I only use it on weekends. So Friday to Sunday night. Mon-Thurs I am in my living room. I used to leave everything on in my main rig. But then I figured since it’s a full 4 days in between (and yes most of my gear including subs have stand by), I should probably power everything off. So that’s what I do now. I actually flip the power switch on my SV subs to off..

I had posed this question before on here and it was literally 50/50 on the responses saying leave on/power down…

I’ll add that what I do is power everything back on Thursday night before I go to bed. Then first thing in the AM on Friday before I go to work I play music at low level and let it play until I get home from work so everything is warmed up and ready to play hard for my Friday night listening and movie sessions. 

Any maker that encourages leaving equipment on should be punished.

Standby is just for our impatient convenience, we cannot wait 5 seconds.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/earth-day-turn-those-amps-off

Sounds like an age old question for a slightly different piece of gear that many of us have been contemplating.

You might save a little money in electricity depending on how much power they draw in stand by.  

Every time you turn on amps there should be a surge of electricity.  Surges can cause wear and damage.  Maybe the amps are designed to survive many surges over decades of use, or maybe not. 

In stand-by there will still be circuits energized, monitoring the input signals to know when to turn on.  How much heat is generated, how fast do the circuits degrade when energized, etc.

I don't have an answer, but the logical entity to ask is the company that designed your speakers.  They would be in the best position to tell you what the speakers were designed for and how to operate them to minimize degradation.   

From my experience, I would turn them off when not in use.  I had a $2500 Paradigm sub that I used for home theater, and we left it on.  A decade later it died.  And the Class D amps inside the sub were not possible to repair.  Just my experience, but that’s what I’d do.  I also have 2 JL Audio subs for my main 2-channel system and I turn them off when not in use.  They are still in operation today.  Standby mode on the Paradigm did not help, obviously.