My Apologies to Miller Carbon

@jpwarren58: 
      "Would be interesting for him to post a list of all the tweaks he tried that didn't work."    

                             #1 in Feynman's Rules of Life:

                                See failure as a beginning.

     My TacT 2.2X stays on 24/7*, as well as the BAT VK-D5, even though it uses 6 Siemens CCa’s.   That’s: unless there’s a storm on the horizon, or I’ll be away for awhile.

     *Both have Standby features, that reduce the current levels to their circuitry.    BAT's Standby keeps a much reduced level, to the tubes, compared to it's circuitry (NICE, but: I'm still glad those CCa’s have a 10K hr life expectancy).  

     Digital stuff just takes forever to reach quality sound, from a cold start, in my experience.

@stringreen:

     Having the audacity to buck the Naysayer Church's doctrines and finding out a bit of truth, pays some worthwhile dividends, does it not?

                                                             KUDOS!

      Not even in the same ballpark, but: I'm still thankful he took a minute to help me with my typing/paragraph disconnection.

                              btw; THANX, millercarbon!