Earth Day, turn those amps OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@pindac I initially said: 

For your safety, never turn your [audio] gear on.

And you said: 

Power Off is the simplest of safeguards, where audio devices are the subject.

It seems we do agree! 😃

It's not about agree/ disagree; it's about assisting with showing others how a forum can influence decision-making that has the potential to substantially alter one's life experience, in a way that would not be wished on anybody.

Power Off - Sleep Well in Your Bed.

I haven’t read but the first couple and last page of responses, and I certainly don’t have full knowledge of the OP’s overall habits as concerns environmental concerns.  But, and jus’ sayin’, my experience has been that, almost without exception, I have found that I can always find ways to express my concerns about the environment that elude even the most “environment conscious”.  Like I always tell my kids, it’s all about balance.

I have vintage second system which at its heart has a Roksan Platinum PR15B & ST1308 Pre and Power. If it were not for the Auto Signal Sensing system where it powers into low state until a signal is detected, it would cost me around £180GBP per year to leave idling, in reality it costs me about £30GBP.

However, I never leave my main system EAR Yoshino 912 all tube/transformer driven Pre Amp on, it has some natural designed in functions that make it inherently a soft start system and neither do I leave my Tube Power amp powered on either fully or standby. Tube life and component heat stress is a far more important factor for me and more than out weighs any unconvincing benefits sonically of keeping everything in a fully powered on state. It has a relay bypassed soft start system too.

Typically my pre amp reaches optimum 15-20 minutes after switch on, the same goes for my power amp. I use the REL’s standby system which works well and I have heard it helps modestly to preserve their amplifiers in the same way as the auto low power state for the Roksan Pre & Power in set up 2.

So when I want to listen to my main system. I switch the system on 20 mins before I start listening usually with low level signal playing from the streamer.

I leave the power supply to the Lumin X1 powered on which is again in the region of £30GBP per year.

So I feel I have struck a reasonable balance of system preservation and reaching sonic sonic stability and optimum performance states, without taxing my system from cold and having to wait too long.