Description: video of a plug in power meter, showing the wattage increase from circa 65 watts to circa 80 watts when the sound of a space key on a keyboard is violently pressed

It cut the video short because of file size limitations, but the power draw is quite consistent between multiple ons and offs.

I am streaming music from Tidal on my desktop, sending it to a Tascam sound card Description: picture of a https://tascam.com/us/product/us-1x2hr/ in an active state

And into a mixer, which in turn sends it to active Adam speakers Description: picture of a https://www.soundcraft.com/en/products/notepad-8fx and a https://www.adam-audio.com/en/ax-series/a5x/

Is the increased power draw what it costs the CPU to stream and decode, or what it costs the Tascam to do it’s work, or both, or something else?

Edit: I have no idea why the sound was removes from the upload…