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Originally Posted by BillK
There's nothing wrong with leaving ARC equipment on save for accelerating hours accumulation.
Be sure to amortize tube replacement cost against the cost of a solid state unit which is usually significantly higher in cost (e.g. ARC Ref 5 SE vs Ayre KX-R.)
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Congrats Bill. I'm in the hunt for some SS amps (can't decide between Classe CA-M600's, Parasound JC-1 or Pass xa160.5/200.5 for my Strads). My issue is that I often only have 15 minutes to listen and I hate turning on the tube amps (2301's) and then right off again. I think all the on/off could reduce the life of the tubes. When I'm going to do 2+ hours of listening, the tubes will go on. My fear is that the Pass labs will sound too much like the 2301's. I think this time around, I want a faster amp. Running my Classe CA-2300 this week (from my family room system in my main system) has showed me how great some SS amps can sound.
Congrats on the ML amp....they are terrific.