Leave it on?

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.

@audiodwebe Yep I turn my Aleph 1.2's off nightly after listening – the heat but also the electrical bill.

@au_lait “…. the heat but also the electrical bill”.

As @vair68robert said previously in the earlier days of this discussion…..

A single amplifier at the national average KWh rate, consuming just 85w powered on amounts to $166 a year.
 

Your Alephs draw 500w each. Good job you turn them off.

Hi.some of my equipment have manufacture shut off automatic.xconsult the manual and have fun

@thecarpathian 

"Do you hear any appreciable difference with your thermal magnetic switches in?"

The only physical changes were adding a thermal magnetic switch in the wall to the hot wire feeding each amp, and then removing the (pretty good - recent SR color) fuse installed by SMc Audio and replacing it with a1/4-inch, 99.9 percent copper rod that was burnished smooth.

To your question, no, I do not hear any appreciable differences that I would reliably attribute to changing out the fuse for a thermal magnetic switch.  I am not surprised.  However, I do get to turn my amps off without unplugging them or turning off the breaker at the main electrical panel so I am happy with the win.