Chebby mentioned it . . .

[jcbrum]

Yep as I thought,

avoiding the question, I rest my case.................

There is no avoidance, Sospri, your case is rejected.

JC

 

[Sospri]

:rofl:

 

[chebby]

Yet again the self-styled AVI 'rep' has colonised another totally unrelated thread for the firm.

 

[steve_1979]

Yet again the self-styled AVI 'rep' has colonised another totally unrelated thread for the firm.

To be fair it was Sospri who brought up AVI not jcbrum.

 

[the record spot]

Yep as I thought,

avoiding the question, I rest my case.................

What was it? The question I mean...?

 

[mr malarky]

Yep as I thought,

avoiding the question, I rest my case.................

What was it? The question I mean...?

"To be, or not to be" I think.

Or it could be "what is the matrix?", hard to tell these days.

 

[BenLaw]

Or it could be "what is the matrix?"

 

[steve_1979]

Or it could be "what is the matrix?"

It's a rather smart looking headphone amp with built in DAC.

 

[CnoEvil]

I wish I could claim all my teeth are my own but they are (at great expense) still in my head. What's left of my hair is still on my head too but it's more silver now than its original blonde. I think I'll buy one of those amps that apparently need 13 amp fuses as that means it's consuming about 3kW and I can dry my clothes by hanging them in front of it rather than using a tumble dryer. (I looked at the pdf of the manual and it proves you can fool more of the people more of the time than even a cynic like me thought.)

Chris

Here are independent measurements (from the other side of the world): http://www.avhub.com.au/images/stories/australian-hifi/reviews/2011-03/Musical_Fidelity_AMS_35i_Amplifier_Review/musical_fidelity_ams35i_amplifier_review_lores.pdf

 

[Covenanter]

I wish I could claim all my teeth are my own but they are (at great expense) still in my head. What's left of my hair is still on my head too but it's more silver now than its original blonde. I think I'll buy one of those amps that apparently need 13 amp fuses as that means it's consuming about 3kW and I can dry my clothes by hanging them in front of it rather than using a tumble dryer. (I looked at the pdf of the manual and it proves you can fool more of the people more of the time than even a cynic like me thought.)

Chris

Here are independent measurements (from the other side of the world): http://www.avhub.com.au/images/stories/australian-hifi/reviews/2011-03/Musical_Fidelity_AMS_35i_Amplifier_Review/musical_fidelity_ams35i_amplifier_review_lores.pdf

It consumes c400W so will pull less than 2 amps of a 250V supply. As the output is less than 100W, 300W will be used to heat the environment, which is quite a lot, 1/3 of a 1-bar electric fire. If it makes your lights dim there is something seriously wrong with your wiring.

Chris

 

[CnoEvil]

It consumes c400W so will pull less than 2 amps of a 250V supply. As the output is less than 100W, 300W will be used to heat the environment, which is quite a lot, 1/3 of a 1-bar electric fire. If it makes your lights dim there is something seriously wrong with your wiring.

Chris

It was measured drawing 414 Watts from the mains.......not enough for your toothbrush though.....

A quote from HFW - "The power consumption of the full Class A AMS35i is obviously more than most transistor power amplifiers; it's enough to make some people's houses' lights dim on switch on."

http://www.bm.rs/Musical%20Fidelity/Musical%20Fidelity%20AMS%2035i%20-%20Award%20HiFi%20World%20January%202011.pdf

It's comforting to know I'm not alone in this.

 

[Covenanter]

It consumes c400W so will pull less than 2 amps of a 250V supply. As the output is less than 100W, 300W will be used to heat the environment, which is quite a lot, 1/3 of a 1-bar electric fire. If it makes your lights dim there is something seriously wrong with your wiring.

Chris

It was measured drawing 414 Watts from the mains.......not enough for your toothbrush though.....

A quote from HFW - "The power consumption of the full Class A AMS35i is obviously more than most transistor power amplifiers; it's enough to make some people's houses' lights dim on switch on."

http://www.bm.rs/Musical%20Fidelity/Musical%20Fidelity%20AMS%2035i%20-%20Award%20HiFi%20World%20January%202011.pdf

It's comforting to know I'm not alone in this.

My friend! The lights in a house (in the UK at least) are on a different circuit to the sockets. If this isn't the case in your house you need to have it rewired! Do your lights dim when you switch on your kettle which will draw 2kW or 3kW? If they do call an electrician and don't switch anything on until your house is fixed. It is 100% impossible for a draw on a socket to dim lights in a correctly wired house. You may not agree with me about many things but I implore you to accept my knowledge on this. I'm not trying to score debating points; I am concerned for your safety.

Chris

PS I hope you are not by any chance actually running the amp off the lighting circuit.

 

[CnoEvil]

My friend! The lights in a house (in the UK at least) are on a different circuit to the sockets. If this isn't the case in your house you need to have it rewired! Do your lights dim when you switch on your kettle which will draw 2kW or 3kW? If they do call an electrician and don't switch anything on until your house is fixed. It is 100% impossible for a draw on a socket to dim lights in a correctly wired house. You may not agree with me about many things but I implore you to accept my knowledge on this. I'm not trying to score debating points; I am concerned for your safety.

Chris

PS I hope you are not by any chance actually running the amp off the lighting circuit.

Your sensible advice is noted.

 

[floyd droid]

Right then , for purely scientific reasons I laid out 28 of the queens finest on this piece of wire and 6 plug sockets. Remember I dont do arty farty wires and the like, just wanted to hear or not hear ,what all the fuss is about.

Going to run my ceedee spinner ( language Timothy ) Pre-Amp and Phono through it first. Monos nailed into the wall as per.

Ok , I'm going in. Will report back.

 

[altruistic.lemon]

My friend! The lights in a house (in the UK at least) are on a different circuit to the sockets. If this isn't the case in your house you need to have it rewired! Do your lights dim when you switch on your kettle which will draw 2kW or 3kW? If they do call an electrician and don't switch anything on until your house is fixed. It is 100% impossible for a draw on a socket to dim lights in a correctly wired house. You may not agree with me about many things but I implore you to accept my knowledge on this. I'm not trying to score debating points; I am concerned for your safety.

Chris

PS I hope you are not by any chance actually running the amp off the lighting circuit.

Your sensible advice is noted.

Does Ireland have ring circuits? Most of the rest of the world doesn't - oz certainly not. Still, lights and sockets should always be separate, no matter what system you use.

 

[BenLaw]

My friend! The lights in a house (in the UK at least) are on a different circuit to the sockets. If this isn't the case in your house you need to have it rewired! Do your lights dim when you switch on your kettle which will draw 2kW or 3kW? If they do call an electrician and don't switch anything on until your house is fixed. It is 100% impossible for a draw on a socket to dim lights in a correctly wired house. You may not agree with me about many things but I implore you to accept my knowledge on this. I'm not trying to score debating points; I am concerned for your safety.

Chris

PS I hope you are not by any chance actually running the amp off the lighting circuit.

Your sensible advice is noted.

Does Ireland have ring circuits? Most of the rest of the world doesn't - oz certainly not. Still, lights and sockets should always be separate, no matter what system you use.

Northern Ireland I believe.

Assume you're ignoring my question to you on the other thread AL, pitiful.

 

[altruistic.lemon]

I'm sure the question wasn't pitiful if you asked it, bl

.

What question was this?

 

[BenLaw]

Pointless really.

 

[floyd droid]

Okie dokie. Test track Almaz, Randy Crawford. I know this ruddy track inside out as I use it when valve rolling , but thats by the by.

Sorry to interrupt your conversation Ben and Mr Lemon .

Span twice on the trot via Tacima then bolted to the wall as normal , same position on vol pot .

Anyone wanna buy a Tacima mains block thingy ,lol.

Couldnt hear one iota of difference between the two. Now I'm not for one minute suggesting CJ or anyone else who heard benefits, didnt . I can only assume that perhaps dirty mains or how this thing reacts with different amplifiers ( more than likely does with different transistor amps) accounts for positive reports. Conversely , I guess it could have a negative effect with some amplifiers / pre amps , hence some negative reports , dunno tbh.

I may whack the mono blocks through it just for a play around tomorrow , but gut feeling is it will be going under the telly.

 

[CnoEvil]

Couldnt hear one iota of difference between the two. Now I'm not for one minute suggesting CJ or anyone else who heard benefits, didnt . I can only assume that perhaps dirty mains or how this thing reacts with different amplifiers ( more than likely does with different transistor amps) accounts for positive reports. Conversely , I guess it could have a negative effect with some amplifiers / pre amps , hence some negative reports , dunno tbh.

I may whack the mono blocks through it just for a play around tomorrow , but gut feeling is it will be going under the telly.

This is exactly why one has to try it out......IME. The results are situation dependent.

I will be surprised if it doesn't effect your mono blocks adversly......so will be interested to see how it goes.

 

[floyd droid]

I will find out soon enough tomorrow Cno. If the transformers start glowing like a glowing thing rather quickly I'm pulling the plug. Even though I didnt use it for long my hand was hovering over the pre-amps transformers like someone demented.

I agree with your situation dependent theory , which I tried to explain in my words, kindof.

 

[CnoEvil]

I will find out soon enough tomorrow Cno. If the transformers start glowing like a glowing thing rather quickly I'm pulling the plug. Even though I didnt use it for long my hand was hovering over the pre-amps transformers like someone demented.

I agree with your situation dependent theory , which I tried to explain in my words, kindof.

It seemed to suck a little of the life from the 35i, which so far, has always sounded better "nailed to the wall".

 

[floyd droid]

Ah now thats given me expectation bias , lol. I will know pretty much within a couple of minutes if things aint quite what they should be. I will use the Tacima purely for the monos , nail the rest of the gubbins into the wall. First off though I will run some gas through everything because my monos take roughly an hr to come up to full throttle , then I will power down and do a quick change over.

 

[CnoEvil]

Ah now thats given me expectation bias , lol. I will know pretty much within a couple of minutes if things aint quite what they should be. I will use the Tacima purely for the monos , nail the rest of the gubbins into the wall. First off though I will run some gas through everything because my monos take roughly an hr to come up to full throttle , then I will power down and do a quick change over.

You're too wily a campaigner to be taken in.....you will know, one way or the other.

 

[floyd droid]

Oh indeed I will , I know my babies inside out.