As far as I know the thing that hurts amplifiers is turning them on and off. I have never had any issues with any SS amps I have owned leaving them on all the time. I also will tell you that over 50 degrees is the "magic" spot for the sound. My amp is normally when I start listening at around 47-48 and after I play it for a while I can get it to 50 plus and then it really goes to another level.
I can understand shutting them off if you don't use them frequently , or in a bad storm , or on vacation but I listen to mine almost every day so I won't
Ok, Eliot, let's take a step back, take a deep breath, and look at it critically.
CH Precision themselves say (they told Ian such) that leaving on the amp all the time is bad because, and with this they just repeat what is common knowledge, heat kills electronic circuitry. So do you really think that CH Precision would make such an
engineering mistake that you would have to leave their amps on all the time to reach optimal sound,
contra their own recommendations?
Really?
REALLY?
You and Gian are propagating the myth that the amps need to reach a certain magical temperature, and thus are best left on all the time.
And if an amplifier is hurt by turning it on and off, maybe that has been true in the past, and maybe that's true of an inferior current design.. But do you really think that CH Precision amps are designed so badly that they can't being turned on and off, especially when it's not several times a day, but once or twice a day? My Octave tube preamp and tube amp have a soft start feature, with SS electronic circuitry ramping up things slowly (SS circuitry also automatically shuts the power amp off upon tube failure, or upon other irregularities). I can impossibly imagine that the circuitry of CH Precision amps is any less sophisticated. CH Precision is the embodiment of sophistication itself.
Sure, I can believe that it takes a good while for an SS amp to sound best, but having to leave it on all the time seems ludicrous to me.
What would CH Precision themselves say to all this?