Why no heated gear?

4est-Standby modes are great, I was thinking of something that allows a person to keep the gear off for longer periods of time to either keep hours off their tubes or to save electricity if you have SS gear.

Cyclonicman-my pre also has a warm up cycle for 45 seconds before you can un-mute it. However, like yours it takes atleast a half hour to sound better.

Thank you everyone for the input.

I'm with you Herman, that some sort of heating would have a positive effect on the warm up process. I completely agree with all the posters that warm up is the only way to get the gear to sound it's best, my intent was to get a few opinions on "speeding" that process up with some sort of external/internal heating. It is my opinion that if a part becomes heated by normal operation during playback, then prematurely heating that part up to at or near operating temperature would result in quicker warm up times and shorter "cold sound" periods. My listening habits have changed and have become more sporadic and shorter in length. I have many nights where I plan to listen, I turn the gear on hours ahead and then not get a chance to listen. Therefore wasting electricity and putting hours on my NOS tubes. If I could get warmed up sound in about 15 minutes I would be a happy audiophile.

To clarify IMO a "warmed up" component is when it sounds best, not that it is warm to the touch etc. As we all know those are very different when it comes to the sound of said component. I want to expedite the time it takes from off to sounding like bliss. Now when I say OFF I mean current isn't passing through the amp/pre amp circuitry, and sounding like bliss means it sounds like it would if it were left on all day everyday.