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?
vinylfan62
Many amps and preamps have warm up cycles of a minute or less so that the tubes are brought up to full power slowly. How would this feature figure into the leave on/turn off debate?
It would figure strongly! My TRL preamp did not have this feature and the on/off cycling was indeed robbing the tube of more life than just leaving it on. Like all things audio....it always depends and few things are just black and white.
Wow...didn't expect this would be a debate, but it's a good debate. 

I used to worry about it, but these days, I really don't. Back when I had my quicksilvers, I just made an educated guess that turning them on and off more than twice a day was about the same as leaving them on, as far as tube wear goes. I could be wrong, could be right. 

Off and on IS hard on tubes...but, so is playing them. At idle...not so much.

Obviously, designs vary on how hard the tubes are driven, right? 

I pay my electric bill, I pay my taxes, and I pay for my stereo stuff. Sometimes I gotta leave it playing to break it in. Like doing laundry.
My big 125 watt tube amps have a 45 second warm up.  Once on, they take about 20 minutes to reach maximum set bias.  Although they run cool enough to put your hand on the transformers (Class A/B), the tubes only last 2500 hours.  So, I do not want to run them full time or pay for the excess power used (I do have solar covering most of the year except the summer when a 9000KV system just isn't enough in inland SoCal).  I leave on my Bryston BIT20 isolation transformer all the time as it uses nominal power when no load is asking for power.  I used to leave my EAR 324 phono stage (solid state) on all the time as well but have switched to a tube phono stage.  
I warm my amps up in Standby. With no B+ on the power tubes, they last a lot longer.