05-May-2015, 18:48
(05-May-2015, 18:21)deviousalet Wrote: Thanks for the measurement of the Phantoms.
What I found with a Devialet 200 was around 9W off, 16W standby, and 28W idle/active (on 120V service and powering B&W N802 speakers).
The D200 took about 13 seconds to start up after being unplugged. How long do Phantoms take to start up? I assume they take longer because they need to synch with a Dialog.
I agree the Phantoms will be more complicated than the expert line to manage because as mamo944 pointed out the power will be distributed around various locations so harder to control with power stations or unplugging. My best idea so far is wiring a switched circuit for the Phantoms, Dialog, music server, etc. and then just switching that circuit on when I want to play music. It would obviously be far nicer if Devialet would just use modern electronics so that the Phantoms would consume almost no power when off. My computers, networking equipment, AV receiver, and most other electronics use less than a watt when in standby or off, so Devialet should be able to figure it out with all of their hardware engineers.
I am talking about D-800 (the 2 amps together)... about the startup time it's difficult to tell since the software is so buggy that i have to fidle around for 10 minutes to get them working after unplugging them ...
