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In Reply to: Your shoot from the hip assertions posted by E-Stat on October 1, 2023 at 14:51:19:
As I see it I asserted that in my opinion my Pass Labs amps sounded best after being ON for a couple hours. There's a lot of thermal mass there to stabilize.I posted that a pair of X260.8 monoblocks draw 740-Watts at idle just sitting there doing nothing but being powered ON. I didn't pull these numbers out of thin air. The "Power Consumption @ Idle" tech spec is right there on the Pass Labs website. I also mentioned that the two amps combined dissipate about the same amount of power (heat) as an electric space heater set on Medium. [Watts translate into Heat]
I then looked up the average electric rates for Ann Arbor MI where the OP lives and calculated the electric bill for leaving these two amps powered ON 24/7 to be about ~$1200/yr.
I additionally commented that my Class D amp draws 0.5 Watts on standby but even if left fully powered ON it draws about 25-Watts at idle.
How these truths would offend someone or hurt their feelings to the point of hurling insults at me is puzzling.
What am I missing here?
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- Can you explain "shoot from the hip" ? And which assertions ? - AbeCollins 10/1/2318:16:29 10/1/23 (0)