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Leave preamp on all day, off at night

Finally had the funds purchased my first tube hifi component, an arc ref 3. Very happy with purchase so far but has raised a concern. System is in main living room - wife and kids listen casually through day - non critical listening. I listen (more critically) for 1-2h at night when they are asleep.
Im used to solid state components that stay on all day long.
Question- is it a problem leaving the valve pre on most of the day, on most days of the week? Is it really just a matter of burning through the tubes faster,  or are there other expensive delicate components in there that don't like being left on all day? Thanks in advance 
divesh

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wolf_garcia"Turning tubes on and off helps the tubes last longer. That's simply a fact. Tubes don't age when they're off."

Wow that is an amazing fact you have stated that tubes don't age when their off what a remarkable conclusion you have arrived at however you're other "fact" is no fact at all because turning tubes on and off does in fact cause them to age and this is the reason for leaving many tube products in the "on" state. Again we see wolf garcia is one of he contributors here who sees his pronouncements and determinations to be some infallible and unchallengeable expressions of truth when in fact it is pretty obvious that you are one of this group's second or third grade American "grammar school"
 children.
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