; Wrote: > > So this is interesting. I read posts from various people asking for > ideas for small auto-switching amps. My new Audioengine A2 speakers are > auto-switching and I was measuring their power usage today (as there's > no way to tell if they're "on" or "off"). Roughly 6W playing, 0W after > the timeout (seems to be a few minutes). Excellent! Then I wondered > about the T-amp which is used in another room - it's not auto-switching > and I wanted to make sure it wasn't eating power as I frequently forget > to turn it off. It draws a whopping 1W when playing at decently loud > volume through regular bookshelf speakers. I'm not sure how that is > possible (my AC theory is flaky at best!) but I'm not worried about the > auto-switch anymore! >
Wow, good discovery, just to be sure, is this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/audio/9c60/ the new iteration of the T-Amp? And what speakers are you connecting to the T-Amp? I guess for the T-Amp always on aproach, you'll have to put the Volume knob at a level that will be more convenient for control from the digital volume of the Squeezebox. My setup right now is just a Squeezebox in my room connected to some Sennheiser wireless headphones: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/newsite/productdetail.asp?transid=009920 (the base unit of this has the auto-turn-on function), and I want to connect some speakers that don't have to be very powerful since I would mostly listen at night, and I live in a small apartment. This T-Amp idea sounds good, and I guess I could connect my Sennheiser headphones to the headphone jack on the Squeezebox, and the T-Amp to the RCA outputs. The thing here is I don't know if I could acomplish some way of switching automatically (for example with the SB3 remote or Squeezecenter Web GUI) between my headphones and the speakers, because if they both auto-switch-on with the sound, when I just want to listen my headphones, I'll have to turn the volume down of the T-Amp manually in the amp unit, making the auto-switch-on not very useful. Fortunately the other way around, if I listen to my speakers, the headphones base would auto-turn-on, but since the actual headphones have to be turned on manually anyway (becuase they run on rechargable batteries), the sound would not be reproduced in the headphones at all :) -- pichonCalavera *rip* (eac) > *convert* (flac) > *tag* (musicbrainz) > *normalize* (replaygain/foobar2000) > *albumart* (winamp) > *transport* (winscp) > *store* (debian) >*rescan* (slimserver) > *play* (squeezebox) > *hear* (sennheiser) > *scrooble* (last.fm) > *enjoy* (me :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pichonCalavera's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13068 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42445 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
