Unlike SS, which can take several hours to sound their best, tubes amps, preamps get there within an hour in general.
My old SS system took 3-4 hours to just start sounding its best...depending on ambient temperature. And this with a tube preamp/SS amp.
An advantage of an all SS system is that you can just leave it on.
I let my tube system warm up for 2 minutes before I listen. Then I don’t worry too much about what record I listen to first. My system (Don Sachs preamp/Evo 400 poweramp) usually hits its stride at the last track on the first side of an LP.
So about 20 minutes for me...not even close to an hour. So I’ll often listen to B side first.
Then off after I’m done listening.
My guess is that you'll naturally figure all this out after some time with your system.
My old SS system took 3-4 hours to just start sounding its best...depending on ambient temperature. And this with a tube preamp/SS amp.
An advantage of an all SS system is that you can just leave it on.
I let my tube system warm up for 2 minutes before I listen. Then I don’t worry too much about what record I listen to first. My system (Don Sachs preamp/Evo 400 poweramp) usually hits its stride at the last track on the first side of an LP.
So about 20 minutes for me...not even close to an hour. So I’ll often listen to B side first.
Then off after I’m done listening.
My guess is that you'll naturally figure all this out after some time with your system.