While I don't leave my entire system on all the time, I use 833-A single ended triodes to run the bass in a tri-wired speaker system, the cathode heater on an 833-A runs at 10 amps and 10 Volts and it will not let you get away with anything but the purest DC because it hums loudly otherwise. The power supplies for the heaters need at least 4.5 Farads from automotive digital capacitors to filter out the hum. But you can't hit them with the current from the 10 volt transformers, heavy duty rectifiers, and the 0.1 Ohm dropping resistor with such colossal capacitors emulating by force and effect a short circuit. Therefore the capacitors have to have a charge maintained by 9 volt AC to DC converters that maintain this charge through 100 Ohms before you start up the system. I am certain that there are other SETs that use a less exotic triode, but once you hear what it does to the bass you never want to go back to something more ordinary and less fun.
Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time?
I listen most nights after work. I find that the system takes a while to warm up and sounds it's best if it has been shut off. So I leave it on. I always have and this is vintage stuff. The amp is a 25/25 Bedini class A. It stays warm but never hot. It has never caused an issue but recently I've been speaking with others that were stunned that I would do this. So let me know if I'm the only one that lets it run. Do you shut off the equipment after each session?
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