Gosh, but that seems a bit high.
Depending on the viewpoint, it isn't necessarily that bad. I have 4 power supplies - and if anyone wants to poke fun at me for this, feel free. I agree, it's ridiculous, but I've the space for it here. Each power supply is about 25W/hour if kept on. 2 of them are for sources. Any normal sane person (I'm obviously insane) probably only has one source, so that would easily knock off 25W/hour. This means it's about 100W/hour kept switched on, so 2.4kWH a day. When actually playing something, it doesn't necessarily consume much. I don't think it really goes above 200W/hour when playing. So if I play some stuff during the day, I might be roughly consuming 3kWH.
My general aim is to keep my energy usage within the solar power I generate. Obviously, it's a bit harder during winter, but outside of that, 3kWH is easily accounted for. Depending on the time when I switch on/off, it could save 1 to 1.5 kWH, and that makes a difference when it's a wintry cloudy day.
Hicap is less consumption. On paper it says 5W and having had it and monitored my energy usage, I believe it. Someone with Hicap / poweramp like 250 / one Naim source is probably under 60W/hour, quite a bit less than my silly number of power supplies.
Is this ridiculously bad and high? A lot of other brands have similar or even higher background power consumption. The Diablo 300 is 200W/hour! Obviously, if they can be switched off, you only consume power when you use it, but even if you switch it off, you might leave it on for say 10 hours, play it only 3 hours during this, and overall, that's a heap of power consumption for that day. If you have a Class A system, while it is on, the consumption might be quite a few hundreds watts/hour.
Defo a different direction, more of a mainstream sound.
