I remember reading an article some time ago (on some audio forum site), which advised leaving your audio equipment powered up at all times (unless you had a class A amp, don't recall the specifics to this exception). If memory serves me right, the reasons/benefits stated were as follows: 1) prolongs the life of your gear (citing the example that a light bulb filament will burn out faster with repeated on-off's, due to heating/cooling and expansion/ contraction of the wire), and 2) you don't have to wait for the electronic components of your gear to "warm-up", when power is kept on.
I know some gear has a "stand-by" power supply (my older JVC system has this feature), which I assume is designed for the reasons mentioned above, without having to have leave the system fully powered up. My new gear does not have a stand-by power feature.
Any thoughts or opinions as to whether there is any merit or harm to leaving audio gear (without the stand-by power feature) always powered up?
Cheers.
