solid state gear- leave on?

I've left my SS Coda amps on 24/7 for years. The only time I turn them off is if I'm monkeying around with the system in some way or if I go out of town. In my experience, SS amps sound best when left on all the time. I sometimes put the Codas into Standby overnight, but even then, it takes about 30 minutes or so for them to come on full song out of Standby, so I like to leave them fully powered up generally.

I never leave my Belles SA-30 Class-A poweramp left on 24/7. Non-weekends I turn it on late afternoon or early evenings, and often leave it running till bedtime (sometimes late; I'm a night owl, for as long as it allows). Weekends it can run for even longer stretches, but never into the next morning. I guess the rationale behind the switching on/off instead of leaving it on 24/7 is a combination of trying to diminish the ultimate heat toll on the capacitors in particular, guessing that it weighs more than the possible effect of cycles (not even sure Mr. Belles in his minimalism has incorporated soft-start in this amp); but also the consideration of the power bill comes into play, so to speak. I have sometimes noticed a sonic boost having had the SA-30 powered up 4-5 hours, but usually find it settles after about an hour or so.  

I go with builders like Ralph Karsten.  Electrical current going through capacitors, semiconductors etc. wears them out.  I heard Nelson Pass and Jeff Roland say the same.  They are only good for so much time. There are sonic advantages to leaving your solid state equipment on if you listen every few days, because of warm up time on some low power circuits like solid state phonos and preamps that take little power and forever to come up to speed.  But let;s not kid ourselves into thinking they are not degrading.  Leaving power amps on anything more than standby or on for more than an hour before listening is wasteful and just another reason to make fun of audiophiles. IMHO.  We burn 12% of our gas sitting in parked cars talking on our phones.  I regularly spit at or on those people so............there.......

After reading some of these posts, I think I'm going to start putting my amps into Standby even more often.