Leave it on?

@aewarren ”…my neighbours system sounds better when it’s turned off”

l know the feeling. I even think along similar lines with some of my neighbours TV’s.  
 

Often the sound is so bad they sometimes have the subtitles on, and the picture quality is mediocre. Why do they leave their sets on the factory/show room “vivid” default settings? Bright pink faces and no deep blacks give the game away. The bigger the screens the worse it gets. It seams to never enter their minds to go onto the picture menus.

It is beyond reason how bad straight out of the box, plug and play televisions can look like.

Think the answer for tube equipment is to turn off I have two Pass Lab amps I leave on almost all the time. Also heats the room in the winter.

My cello preamp has no switch, it’s just on if it’s plugged in.

@au_lait ”My cello preamp has no switch”

In the UK we have switches on our 13amp sockets as a British Electrical Standard, so it’s not a problem isolating your preamp if over here. I know the US has 110v with normally no switches at the plug for on and off. It sounds a little bit crazy to us Brits if we buy equipment with no on/off switch to not be able to isolate the unit without pulling a plug from the wall.

l know it’s completely safe to just push in and pull out a 110v plug and that is not part of the discussion. I am talking about pure convenience and the options for gear with no on/off. I think that gear made for the American market should logically, and for ease of use, be manufactured with on/off switches.

I have a Butler TDB2250 power amp. When I sent it in for some repairs I talked to B.K. Butler the owner and designer. He told me that leaving the power on was just fine. My amp doesn't have a standby mode. If it did I would use it.