Leave it on?

@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. 

@russwill “My amplifier does not have a standby mode. If it did l would use it”

Obviously my last post is irrelevant if equipment is plugged in and left on forever, but as you say, having more user options are plus points.

I have a large Pass XP-30 preamp and I can't find a way to turn it off other than unplugging it, and I'm not climbing behind my equipment racks every night to do that. My McCormack UDP-1 doesn't seem to turn off either. I leave my Hovland Radia Amp on all the time because it doesn't sound good for many hours until warmed up and I listen every morning. I have a Moon 280D streamer which I do turn off. I'm not sure where the logic is there. My ARC PH-7 has tubes, so it's off until I use it. I had a McCormack amp and McCormack told me to leave it on, that it's power usage was like a lightbulb when not listening to music. 

Like many, I leave ss gear on 24/7, unless i'm going out of town for some time. Tubed gear gets turned on for listening, then off at the end of the evening.

The only exception to this is the Aleph 2's I own. Those generate so much heat in my small listening room they get treated like tubed gear.