Just recieved one of those plug in energy meters from my utilities company and was interested to see how much power the hi-fi was using.
My wife has always blamed all the electronic ho ha throughout the house for our high electricity bills so time to find out i thought.
so played some music at the maximum volume I would normally listen to (55 on my arcam amp) and the meter reading went up by about 250w.
nowhere near as much as I would have thought bearing in mind I am bi-amping with 2 arcam a85/p85 amps with rated max power consumption of 800w each!!!
Even more interesting is the fact that when I switched over to single wire using just the a85 integrated, the meter reading went up by about 350w so using 100w more power than the bi-amp setup!!!!
when using my hifi at more domestic listening levels I was only using about 50w or so.
The worst culprit was the plasma tv continually using between 350w to 450w, darn must try not to keep failing asleep at night watching it!
My wife has always blamed all the electronic ho ha throughout the house for our high electricity bills so time to find out i thought.
so played some music at the maximum volume I would normally listen to (55 on my arcam amp) and the meter reading went up by about 250w.
nowhere near as much as I would have thought bearing in mind I am bi-amping with 2 arcam a85/p85 amps with rated max power consumption of 800w each!!!
Even more interesting is the fact that when I switched over to single wire using just the a85 integrated, the meter reading went up by about 350w so using 100w more power than the bi-amp setup!!!!
when using my hifi at more domestic listening levels I was only using about 50w or so.
The worst culprit was the plasma tv continually using between 350w to 450w, darn must try not to keep failing asleep at night watching it!