July 4th, 2019, 4:25 pm
July 4th, 2019, 4:47 pm
dkalsi wrote:I don't have a dedicated music room. Instead, my music room in our family room.
There is no TV there - just a music system.
Sometimes I listen to music in the morning during breakfast and again later in the day when I come home for work.
My wife occasionally listens to the system in the afternoon.
My question is: Is it okay to turn on-off a tube based system multiple times a day?
I've really only owned solid state systems over the years. I have owned a tube based system at one time but then was very careful only to listen to the system once a day or every other day.
The manual on my Plinius SA-100MKIII (solid state) amp specifically instructs to leave the amp on all the time, indicating that it uses absolutely minimal power when idle.
Thoughts anyone?
July 4th, 2019, 5:04 pm
July 4th, 2019, 5:21 pm
dkalsi wrote:Thanks, Walt.
I think I will stay with my Plinius solid state amp. I was thinking about replacing my passive pre with a tube preamplifier.
So I was curious if I should be concerned with turning the tube pre-amplifier on multiple times a day.
July 4th, 2019, 9:50 pm
TubeDriver wrote:Walt's is generally correct. But think about this for a minute.
Most preamps have a couple tubes at most, many that are fairly inexpensive to replace. A 6SN7 or 12AU7 based preamp may have tubes that last 3-5+ years easily and can cost as little as $25-50 to replace them (about what is cost to fill up your car's gas tank). Is that really too expensive?
July 5th, 2019, 7:59 am
July 5th, 2019, 11:46 am
dberning wrote:Don't shut things down to take a phone call.
David
July 5th, 2019, 12:04 pm
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