Amp — Leave on or turn off

@hilde45 👍👍 thanks for the link

All ya need to do is leave your amp on for a day or two.  Get yourself a good cheap thermometer and lay it near the hottest part of your amp (heat sinks).

Check the temp  and remember.  Let amps cool as a normal part of listening.

Check cold temp and then redo checking temp until it gets to above temp.

Now you can turn your amp off and know how long it will take to get to proper operational temperature.  Win-win.  You're welcome.

My Ayre V-5xe Amp on/off switch (front of amp) is really an on/stand-by switch.  (The actual on/off switch is on the back of the unit.), which implies that the electronics have a low wattage draw that keeps them 'warmed' and ready when I 'turn on' the front switch. 

That being said - I agree that morning listening is markedly better than at other times.  Line -noise?  Low Humidity? Rest?  Sum of all...?

By all means, keep your equipment on 24/7.  Everything will sound better that way..  

Remember that recording studios and broadcast stations keep everything they have on 24/7 so they'll aways be able to get the maximum performance from it whenever they need it.  This includes the remote trucks too. And as pointed out, some equipment is designed for it, or requires it, such as class-a and tube equipment, and power conditioners and UPSes.

If you power your equipment on and off it really won't be ready to give you the sound you appreciate sometimes for days after you turn it on, and you really don't spend that much money doing it.  And I've found that my equipment lasts so much longer.

I have 6 amps (Anthem, Denon, Sony), 5 Sonos Connects, a Parasound AM/FM  tuner, a DAC, a Teac cd recorder, an Arcom cd player, a Revox RtoR, and a Carver preamp that are all on 24/7.  Some of them are plugged into sine-wave UPSes, and my main stereo stack is on a Furman power conditioner.  Everything is on 24/7. 

I also have a home data center with 4 servers, 2 switches, a router, 4 desktop boxes, and a wide-screen monitor,  These are also on 24/7.  

All told I figured out this costs me around $50 per month.

I turn nearly all of my electronics off after listening.  The only thing left on is the internet-modem/router.  After powering up for listening, consistently the music sounds better after at least 1-hour of warmup. I'm not certain which components need that hour of warmup however some of my best listening happens in the evening and after the system's been running for hours before.  Many of you I'd bet experience the same thing.  My preamp has no easy to reach power switch and the mfg. says to leave it on unless you're not using the system for an extended period, however I shut it down.  All of my amps are class-A so leaving them on 24/7 is not an option I choose.  I've never left equipment on past my listening time unless it's purely by accident.  And while I can't comment on improvements in sound over longer periods of time with equipment left on, I think it's whatever you feel/hear from doing it that should be your guide.