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In Reply to: Tubes - on or off? posted by w9ls on March 11, 2007 at 01:11:50:
The tubes in it should go thousands of hours before problems. Pre's
tend to run tubes far below their max operating characteristics
(Audible Illusions are one exception) so they tend to last longer than expected.
You'll want to leave it up if possible to lessen warm up time
which with some pre's is a few hours before they thermally stabilize and sound
their best. If you're using shockingly expensive tubes in the
pre you may want to shut it down if you're away for days, but I've found tubes
are kind of like light bulbs, you get more hours out of them if you run them constantly.
Others may have a different opinion or experience.If your SS amps have a standby mode that helps
shorten their warm-up as well.
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Follow Ups
- Leave the pre on all th time - RFGumby 05:50:38 03/11/07 (16)
- Re: Leave the pre on all th time - Jim McShane 10:29:26 03/11/07 (15)
- I'd be remiss not to mention - RFGumby 17:25:45 03/15/07 (0)
- small signal tubes? - Quiet Earth 21:01:58 03/11/07 (3)
- Re: small signal tubes? - Jim McShane 06:29:32 03/12/07 (2)
- Re: small signal tubes? - elflow 19:05:05 03/12/07 (0)
- Thanks for that information Jim - Quiet Earth 10:48:16 03/12/07 (0)
- I agree - Sherlock 16:07:04 03/11/07 (9)
- Can't agree - RFGumby 17:16:58 03/11/07 (8)
- Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - Dave Pogue 05:24:17 03/12/07 (5)
- Re: Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - bonzodog 08:13:47 03/12/07 (0)
- Re: Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - jea48 06:49:02 03/12/07 (1)
- Re: Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - Dave Pogue 09:53:04 03/12/07 (0)
- Re: Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - Jim McShane 06:23:06 03/12/07 (1)
- Re: Has anyone ever worn out a Telefunken ECC83/12AX7? - Aleks 03:40:03 03/18/07 (0)
- Re: Can't agree - Sherlock 18:43:12 03/11/07 (1)
- Re: Can't agree - Jim McShane 06:34:05 03/12/07 (0)