better safe than sorry. when tube goes bad anything can happen including anything that had been already happening.
leave tube amp on, you are at the fire hazard.
Leaving tube amps on.
This is a question I had for a long time. I know it’s not a good idea to leave tube amps on all the time because of tube life and safety reasons. But sometimes I don’t have the opportunity to listen to my system / music for hours at time at one sitting. Sometimes I can only listen to it 45 min - a few hours at a time during the day / night. So my question is would it be better to leave the amps on all day / evening and listen when I can or turn them on / off every time I listen even if is only 45 min at a clip. But to just clarify when I don’t intend to listen that day/ night they will be off. Does turning the amps on / off throughout the day / night do more harm than leaving them on ? Tube life , wear and tear on amps etc. btw I have the Audio Research Ref 750s. Ea amp has 18 KT150 , 6550WE , 6H30.
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I love the idea of leaving them on, but I cannot park myself near my amps all day long, and a fire is a terrible thing. This seems like an easy one. |
@ghdprentice Thanks for your response. I have to agree now with you. These 750s do have a slow start. And considering the options of leaving them on or off during some of my short listening sessions during the day / night I will now be turning them off. I have about 800 hrs on these KT150s and I also did buy a brand new complete matched set of tubes from ARC when I bought these amps last summer. Also I did already a tube ARC last year when I first got these amps. One of the KT150 tubes must of gotten shaken up during shipping. I think it was the very first time I played them. Scared the FK outta me. I put a post up last year about that. |
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