tube dac question

[Scifiguy]

To those of you with tube dacs, do you leave them on all the time or turn them on and off? And, if you turn them on/off how long do they (on average) take to "warm up"?

 

[pomdomz]

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Originally Posted by Scifiguy To those of you with tube dacs, do you leave them on all the time or turn them on and off? And, if you turn them on/off how long do they (on average) take to "warm up"?

i dont have a tube dac, but i do have tube headphone amp. i usually have it on all the time when im home. if i am away from my setup for more then 2hrs i will turn it off. but usually its on during the day, i love headphones

 

[Carl]

Directly heated tubes and indirectly heated tubes have rather different warmup traits. I assume you're soley refering to the latter type.