Older Amps - ON or OFF?

soundfreak1

gdb wrote: »

I turn my stuff OFF, if only to avoid the chance of burning my house down. How important is a longer lasting amp........ compared to a building to house it in ?

Remember the old phase linear or as they are still known as the " flame" linear.

leftwinger57

I talked about this on the original thread.I always thought you should keep your electronics off w/ the more modern ones
having a stand /by feature. Now while saying this I looked over at the rear of my Klipsch sub and it's an amplifier and it's
never been off for years except for the oncoming electrical storm. So hypocrit,I don't know my Adcom does stay off.

soundfreak1

I dont think your sub amp is "on" it has a small trickle of voltage awaiting a "signal" from your processor ant than it "wales" up and goes to full power.

Inspector 24

Here's a curveball for the thread, what about leaving everything on, but connected to a power conditioner that you turn on and off, thus turning everything on/off at once?

For example, I've got everything hooked into a Monster HTS2600II and with pressing the single button on the front of the unit I can turn everything on or off. I leave the Marantz and the Parasound in the on position all the time. Hit a single button, everything powers up. Good? Bad? Doesn't matter?

Moose68Bash

Inspector 24 wrote: »

Here's a curveball for the thread, what about leaving everything on, but connected to a power conditioner that you turn on and off, thus turning everything on/off at once?

For example, I've got everything hooked into a Monster HTS2600II and with pressing the single button on the front of the unit I can turn everything on or off. I leave the Marantz and the Parasound in the on position all the time. Hit a single button, everything powers up. Good? Bad? Doesn't matter?

A variation on Inspector 24's theme:

What about leaving the power conditioner (built on a 5kVA toroidal isolation transformer) on all the time, and turning CD player, preamp, and amps on and off?

I've wondered about what effect being constantly on would have on the toroidal transformer and also the power consumption with no load on the power conditoner.

cc43fan

gdb wrote: »

I turn my stuff OFF, if only to avoid the chance of burning my house down. How important is a longer lasting amp........ compared to a building to house it in ?

Agreed. I turn them off.

Glen B

Moose68Bash wrote: »

What about leaving the power conditioner (built on a 5kVA toroidal isolation transformer) on all the time, and turning CD player, preamp, and amps on and off?

I've wondered about what effect being constantly on would have on the toroidal transformer and also the power consumption with no load on the power conditoner.

AFAIK, there should be no effect on an isolation transformer being on all the time. I've been running balanced isolation transformers continuously for many years, except for times when there is a thunderstorm, where I unplug everything. The no-load power consumption is extremely small, just a few milliamps.

bthogan

1. Leaving my Parasound on doesn't appear to have any effect, positive or negative, on performance, so I turn it off. Seems like a good idea in terms of safety etc.; I haven't really thought about the issue of wear from powering on and off.

When I get my McCormack DNA-1 back, I'll always leave it on. That's somewhat specific to the gear, though. Like some solid states, it does sound better after it's been on for a bit. I'll probably turn it when I go on vacations.

2. Linguistic analysis has its limits, but at the same time, that continental stuff can get pretty sophistical; we have to police it somehow. There must be some middle ground between the strictly analytical approach to expression and culture - which tends toward sterility, and an inability to incorporate dimensions of consciousness and human existence that are neglected by the reductive ontology of the "rational animal" - and the worser consequences of post-structuralism, which can tend toward willfully obscure bull****. I've always been struck by the analytical side's neglect of the Heideggerian critique of the strictly analytical approach, as seen in (e.g.) Being and Time - a critique, of course, but not a rejection; something that Derrida et al. seem to have missed. Of course, he was a ****; that might have had something to do with it.

Hope this helps.