Tim-Ann;309301 Wrote: > Re leaving the ATC's on when I spoke to Ben at ATC he said they only use > about a light bulbs worth of electricity per day if left on, is that > not so? According to my power meter, the amps in the SCM100s consume about 0.55A when idle, which is about 130W. (So I guess you could argue that it's similar to leaving a 100W light bulb on all the time, but that's not something I would want to do). 130W is 3.12kWh per day. If you pay 10p per kWh, that's over £100 per year(!).
Tim-Ann;309301 Wrote: > My only thought was that having them on constantly was preferable to > having to switch them on and wait for them to warm up? IME they don't really have a warm-up period. They sound great right away. Tim-Ann;309301 Wrote: > As you run your Transporter direct to your ATCs are there any settings > I need to change in SC7.01? I run SC 7.0 (to stay away from TP firmwares 40 & 42, which I've read have some problems), so I couldn't say for sure. My guess is that the settings will be the same in 7.0 and 7.0.1, so there are no special things to check. (ie. FLAC playback works correctly "out of the box", and bitrate limiting is not set by default). It won't hurt to check that bitrate limiting is set to "no limit" - if it's set to some specific rate, then all your FLACs will get transcoded to MP3 (which would kind of defeat the purpose of having a Transporter and ATCs!). Tim-Ann;309301 Wrote: > Ive been reading about replay gain and not sure if that should be on > or off and if I need to use Footbar2000 to remove any gain (hope thats > the correct terminology). Replaygain is just a set of metadata tags. It doesn't affect the audio data in the file at all. What it does do is instruct the playback device to adjust the volume up or down. I recommend that you do add the Replaygain tags (both album and track values) to all your FLACs. Just because they are present doesn't mean you have to use them. I set my main system (TP & ATCs) to use Album Gain tags, and the two others (SB2 in the kitchen; Duet in the bedroom) to use Smart Gain. If you do use Replaygain, then you should be aware of a bug that can cause clipping. See here for details: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5119 Tim-Ann;309301 Wrote: > I transferred all my CDs to FLAC with a 768 kBit/s was this correct? The bit rate of FLAC files isn't that important. All it tells you is the average compression factor you got. (768kbs is a compression factor of about 45% - ie. the FLAC file is about 55% the size of the uncompressed WAV file). You will find that different FLACs will have different apparent bit rates, even though you compressed them all at the same level. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46674
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