Nice input.
Thank you.
Nice input.
Is it just me or is this a ridiculous thread?
If there is a problem, it is not the use of power hungry gadgets but the use of gadgets, period. Hi-Fi is a non-essential luxury item so if you actually care about polar bears the solution is not an energy efficient Hi-Fi but no Hi-Fi at all. If you really cared and believed it mattered you'd get rid of the gadgets instead of pretending you're pure because your gadgets use a little less power than they might.
Me? I leave my system on 24/7, polar bears can swim.
So you go all the way, or you do nothing at all?
Don't ever let 'better' be the enemy of the good.
Not exactly but our Western lifestyles are built on excessive and unsustainable consumption, of everything really. Energy, resources, food, everything. But we like our lifestyles and do not want to give them up so to make ourselves feel better we engage in this...bullshit about energy saving electrical goods. It's total hypocrisy.
Is it a lot worse than CDs and cassettes? I imagine quite a few broken jewel cases have ended up in landfill over the years.Having said that, the environmental impact of vinyl LP production is horrendous and I'm a big vinyl fan and I'd hate to be without that too!
In that case, I thoroughly recommend class-A amplification.There's no aspiration to compromise sound quality or musical enjoyment
I don't think listening volumes affects power consumption much. According to my plug-in energy monitor my 100wpc Class A/B amp draws around 70 watts when idle and I haven't been able to make this reading increase even when listening at my loudest levels. Perhaps I'm just not pushing it hard enough!I do consider about energy consumption, but for my hifi usage this is immaterial as I mostly listen near-field and always at fairly low volumes, hence my usage is probably only a few watts and certainly never above 30-40 (given the max power of my amps). That is far less than my computer and monitor. I see no need to switch from A/B to D (did try class D but didn't like the ones I tried).
That seems very high.I don't think listening volumes affects power consumption much. According to my plug-in energy monitor my 100wpc Class A/B amp draws around 70 watts when idle and I haven't been able to make this reading increase even when listening at my loudest levels. Perhaps I'm just not pushing it hard enough!
Certainly higher than my vintage Yamaha Class A/B receivers which idle around 35w-45w IIRC, but it's consistent with lab tests:That seems very high.