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Post by dsonyay on Mar 4, 2020 13:06:25 GMT -5
When Emotiva equipment is in standby mode (power button yellow), does this also function as a sort of "warm up mode"? Some people have said even solid state equipment may sound different once everything warms up. Does standby mode help with this? Just curious
David
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Post by Gary Cook on Mar 4, 2020 14:04:30 GMT -5
Nope.
Cheers
Gary
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Post by routlaw on Mar 4, 2020 14:06:57 GMT -5
And FWIW, I leave my amps and pre-amp on at all times unless away for awhile. It does burn a bit more electricity but feels its minor compared to other things.
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Post by Jean Genie on Mar 4, 2020 14:27:28 GMT -5
And FWIW, I leave my amps and pre-amp on at all times unless away for awhile. It does burn a bit more electricity but feels its minor compared to other things. ' its minor compared to other things." Would you care to expand, please?  |
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Post by routlaw on Mar 4, 2020 14:49:09 GMT -5
Not sure there is anything to expand upon, but I’m open to questions if you can be more specific. Thanks
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Post by DavidR on Mar 4, 2020 15:20:42 GMT -5
I've always wondered about the Standby Mode for all of their equipment especially Amps. Are some of the electronics fed power at some level?
Maybe move the thread to the Keith's Corner forum.
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Post by routlaw on Mar 4, 2020 15:50:16 GMT -5
I've always wondered about the Standby Mode for all of their equipment especially Amps. Are some of the electronics fed power at some level?
Maybe move the thread to the Keith's Corner forum.
Given how cool the amps are when in stand by mode I doubt their is any real power being fed. I look at the standby mode as a convenience factor for either saving electricity or making equipment changes upstream or down, things like cables, DACS etc. This prevents any massive power pops and surges. |
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Post by DavidR on Mar 4, 2020 19:03:54 GMT -5
From the XSP-1 G2 Owners Manual>>>
Power Requirements: 115 VAC or 230 VAC +/- 10% @ 50 / 60 Hz (automatically detected and switched). Power consumption (On): 32 watts. Power consumption (Standby): <1 watt.
It uses power so something is 'alive'.
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Post by routlaw on Mar 4, 2020 20:04:12 GMT -5
From the XSP-1 G2 Owners Manual>>>
Power Requirements: 115 VAC or 230 VAC +/- 10% @ 50 / 60 Hz (automatically detected and switched). Power consumption (On): 32 watts. Power consumption (Standby): <1 watt.
It uses power so something is 'alive'.
Well less than 1 watt is all it would take to power the LED orange logo. My guess is this is the only thing being powered in standby mode. My XSP-1 Gen 2 actually runs warmer (at idle power on) than any of my DR amps including the DR-3, same for the XMC-1 its stays warmer than any of the amps. |
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Post by hifihonu on Sept 19, 2020 15:38:56 GMT -5
I was actually curious about this last night as I noticed my system has always seemed to sound a tad better after a half an hour of being powered on. I don't leave my amps on all the time anymore. I have an XPA-2 Gen2 and with a KillAWatt I measured ~20Watts at the outlet when the unit is in standby mode. Initial power up ramps up to 860Watts within a few seconds and then levels out at about 130watts. No music playing it will maintain 130 watts. Interesting thing is that will drop to about 128 with very low level music playing. I'm running Magnepan MMGs. At about 80db with 86db peaks I see about 160-165Watts consumption peak at the outlet (was playing some Paul Simon cuts off the Graceland album). I did this at night so I didn't crank it too much. Anyway I find the 130Watt constant consumption with no music playing interesting. Maybe that's just what it takes to keep those banks of capacitors topped off?
With that said, I've made quite a few changes to my system over the past 7 years or so of owning this amp with the XPA-2 and MMGs being the constant. I have heard drastic changes for the better with improvements to cable, DACs (most recent is Topping DX7 Pro), changing connection between DAC and AMP from single ended to XLR, the way the speakers are isolated from the floor, playback software configuration (Roon with DSD512 output), Ifi Purifier 3, and the last thing I did which to my ears removed a tiny bit of grain that I'd hear from time to time was routing the cables and using short connections where possible so power and signal are not near each other or are never running parallel. I kept thinking I'd want to upgrade the amp, but I get more and more detail with this big guy in the system and music just sounds effortless. It's a damn good design and has been trouble free since purchase almost 8 years ago.
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