6800 Ultra is NOTHING.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I have the giant clunky 6800 Ultra, and as much as that heats up my room, it's nothing compared to the Alesis QS6.1 to my left.
Let's see what I got heating my room:
2x linear amplifier ~30W heat each
1x digital amplifier, model old ~15W heat
1x GTX260 ~160W heat
2x 8800GT ~80W heat each
1x 4800+ ~80W heat
1x E7400 ~80W heat
1x small server ~30W heat
1x inefficient 24" LCD ~40W heat
1x 10W linear voltage regulator and transformer ~15W heat
3x UPS ~10W each
1x laptop ~30W
Losses in misc. power supplies ~60W
That's over 700W of heat
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP