Doug
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I’ve gone back and forth many times over 50 years of audiophilia, usually based on how many tubes were in my system and how expensive the tubes were. Currently, my most expensive tube, out of four total system tubes, costs about $200, with all four CSP3-25 tubes retailing for about $400. Because I have so few tubes now, I pretty much leave all components on 24/7, knowing that I can listen at any time with the system at peak performance. All components in my system are well seasoned, but it still requires an hour or more warm up time for the system to perform at it’s best, so I simply leave it all up and running. If I had 12, 16, 20 or more tubes in a system, as I have had at many times in the past, I would probably turn all off nightly. For me, it’s more of a financial decision.
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