Streamer always on?

I have a 15 year old Velodyne sub and it's never been off, except for power outages.  

I tried touching the play/pause on the older Node2 for five seconds. Works on this model too.

I thought it might mr_m. The reason I put mine in vacation mode is there might be a couple of days go by when I don't use it , I still spin CD's and sometimes  I would have to power cycle it anyway to reset the ip address. 

Question.

 Do streamers have to break in the way everything else does?

The reason I ask is that it seems to be sounding better after a couple of days.