Need Zektor MAS7.1 Audio/HDMI Switcher ASAP!
- Thread starter Mark (Basspig) Weiss
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I think rather than complicate my life with adding a whole new line of electronics to my rack, I'll just wait until a suitable switcher comes along. Until then, no foreign DVDs and my Oppo 981HD sits unused. I've got too many other irons in the fire right now to even conduct an all out search for another Zektor, as I have part of the roof off my home and am rebuilding it--12 hour days and total exhaustion. Until then, I'll limp along on one player.
As for power consumption, the stuff in my preamp rack adds up. An AVP can use hundreds of watts, easily more than everything else in that rack. While everything in both racks probably draws close to a kilowatt, idling, even 200 watts more can be significant. With our electric bills cracking $600 per month lately, I'm looking at ways to cut back on consumption. I'd rather have a 12 watt Zektor than a 200 watt Marantz idling away in there.
Sure there are 'solutions', but they are going in a completely different direction. I don't want anything to mess up the decent noise floor of the Oppo. When it comes to my fireworks demo, I need the best DACs and the lowest noise levels achievable. The demo has 86dB of dynamic range. My Sony player was too noisy and distorted down around -86dB in the background ambience of the precursor to the first explosions. Not many DACs can maintain low distortion in the bottom of the LSBs. Do I want that gamble? No.
As for power consumption, the stuff in my preamp rack adds up. An AVP can use hundreds of watts, easily more than everything else in that rack. While everything in both racks probably draws close to a kilowatt, idling, even 200 watts more can be significant. With our electric bills cracking $600 per month lately, I'm looking at ways to cut back on consumption. I'd rather have a 12 watt Zektor than a 200 watt Marantz idling away in there.
Sure there are 'solutions', but they are going in a completely different direction. I don't want anything to mess up the decent noise floor of the Oppo. When it comes to my fireworks demo, I need the best DACs and the lowest noise levels achievable. The demo has 86dB of dynamic range. My Sony player was too noisy and distorted down around -86dB in the background ambience of the precursor to the first explosions. Not many DACs can maintain low distortion in the bottom of the LSBs. Do I want that gamble? No.
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