My Rockin' Room - Page 12

Hehe. I do have a lot of junk. I'm sure we all do. As we get older and move thru life, it's amazing the stuff that one accumulates. Nothing museum quality, I assure you.

Easy now, Mr. 5 blu-ray players!

Lol. Only to Franin's booth, that's where all the cool kids will be hangin' out.

Two.

You have a wonderful system. Don't sell yourself short. Both my BD players are low to middle end. Nothing fancy at all. I have one in my HT and the other in the family room, for the wife & kids. You have the beautiful Pioneer Elite 09. That's one helluva player.

Here's some info on my Martin Logan Prodigies. And a review by Stereophile magazine.

Hi rip.

I have my two 501's plugged into one PPP and the MC205 (5-channel amp) and the rest of the gear plugged into the other PPP.

My Denon AVP-A1HDC1 pre/pro draws 2 amps, the MC501's draw 6.6 amps each (only at peak continuous power), the Oppo BDP-83 draws 0.3 amp, and the MCD500 draws 0.3 amp. That's 15.8 amps full load current. The PPP is able to deliver 12.5 amps continuously, and has been designed to be able to dump additional current above that 12.5 amps on short term demands.

My biggest current draws are the amplifiers, but they usually draw less than two amps each. Their load is variable depending on their output. I talked to someone who has 501's and he measured his MC501 amps with an amp meter while turning up the volume and watching the output power meters. With his meters peaking 200 watts the amps were barely over 2 amps each. At 300 watts output the amp meter displayed in the range of 3.5 amps. This is for each amplifier. Doubling that would equal 7 amps load with both amps peaking 300 watts output, plus 2 amps for the Denon pre/pro, and less than 1 amp for the MCD500 and the Oppo BDP-83 together. Call it 10 amps continuous load for ease of calculation. That load will easily be supported by a single PPP. But since I also have the MC205 5-channel amp, another PPP was needed. Both PPP's are plugged into dedicated 20 amp circuits.

Hope this helps.

Hey, that was some wild World Cup action in your neck of the woods.

Here's a neat video with Paul McGowan explaining the PPP. Enjoy

Hi prepress.

I turn them and the whole system off when not in use.

It's hard for me to justify spending mucho dinero on fancy power cords. I'll bite the bullet a bit on exotic speaker cables and such (still not 100% convinced on them either), but just can't do it for fancy-pants power cords. So with that said, I'm using the stock power cords that came with each piece into the PPPs.

Way cool you and your wife attended a couple of world cup games. Did you bring your Vuvuzela?

Also, congrats on Louis Oosthuizen winning the British Open. South Africa is on a roll.

Lol. I wasn't there for his experiment. I assume he had the joint rockin' though.



Holy moly! The 'press got a cell phone!? Hey, what a minute... I'm thinking something is going on...



Honestly, it's been so long since I've actually looked at the back of my amps and fiddled with the speaker connections I just don't recall. I think KC answered this in his thread.