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Post Subject: Some winter observations.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/25/2011

This year is the first winter that I live with this new listening room. Last winter the playback was up and I still was playing with minor arrangements of my ULF channels, cable and a few other things. For many months I do pretty much nothing with my playback, I just turn it on and off. The minnow things: like changing tonearm and replace regenerator are not really important.

Nowadays and it got cold outsider I tend to run my power amp all time when I am home. Even if I live for couple hours I do not turn them off. I do turn them off what I live for more than 4-5 hour or overnight. My power amps eat 720W, with sub 50% efficiency 400W are pure hit that is radiated into my room. I have combined heating system in my listening room: hot water baseboard with radiant floor heating. I figured out that the hot water is losing efficiency by gas-water-air exchange. In addition the amount of hit lost during delivery hot water over the pipes shall be high. With amps brining right in the room the heating effect has 100W efficiency and each partial of heat the amp wasted the room very much use. So, by venture of higher efficiency let presume that 320W that I waste by running amp 100W get recover by more efficient heating then my hot water house heating. That lives 220W that is nice and moderate amount of electricity to waste. The flood light that shines all nigh lighting up your yard takes approximately the same wattage.

Of cause running playback all time do not serve heating propose and the mentioned above is juts BS that I am trying to sell myself in order to justify what I do. During the last few month I listed a lot of music, radio, LP, tapes, DAW, CD; a lot of new music sometimes, and I feel it is very handy to have amps running all time. I do turn on/off my phonostage, my Lavry A/D converter after Schwarz and pump of my TT – they are the only switches that I use. In fact it is kind of bizarre by what I come to my room with amps off then the room does not feel friendly to me and it do not feel warm with no amps running even if it has 72F in room….

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