Amp — Leave on or turn off

Responsible Conservation: Totally irresponsible to leave anything on!

I sometimes wonder how much collective electricity is consumed world wide for standby/instant on devices.

The lights aglow in my office at night are like an un-named constellation

I don’t have solar panels. Does this mean I can resume playing Peel Me a Grape that I had on repeat for close to 30 years in my high power consuming system? Cause I just paused it for few minutes to check if I kept that coal plant alive all this time….no bueno there…the last of the mohicans in NJ it was demolished few years ago. 

There are close to 220 operational coal power plants in the US. China has over 3,000.
Our contribution to pollution by leaving our amplifiers on can’t even be measured. I’m not saying we don’t need to be conscious about it, but the environmentalists on this thread…you guys are barking up a wrong tree.
Alright enough politics…hate this in the audio forum. There are other places where this can be debated.

For my Portal Panache Integrated (designed by Nelson Pass), they recommended that for best sonics it be left on 24/7 (there was no standby switch)...for my high power Pass Class A mono blocks, Pass says there is no short or long term harm in leaving them on 24/7, simply my decision based on listening habits, sonics, electric usage...sure seems manufacturers of seemingly similar products have various recommendations...

A class D amp takes 24 to 48 hours to properly charge the caps and settle in since it is 95% efficient. You don’t want to EVER TURN ONE OFF SO HELP YOU GOD unless you are plugging in things into it