The heat of tubes...

Aha, found the other thread on this same subject...it is here:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?htech&1049165373&openusid&zzJax2&4&5#Jax2

Subaruguru was the gent who hangs his Alephs down in the basement (see his post to the above thread)

Although I've never been bothered by the heat of my tube amps in the summer - the AC's usually on anyway here in DC*, where it's almost always hot and humid during July and August - I would be wary of keeping my amps in a closet; I'd much rather that they make me a little hot, than for me to allow them to run in an environment even hotter still, which will rapidly degrade their operating lifetime. If the amp(s) can raise the temp of a whole listening room a few degrees, think how much higher they'll raise it in a small confined closet. Ventilate, ventilate...

*[Good grief, I can't believe it took me two long years to arrive at that inadvertant bad pun of abbreviations for air conditioning, The District of Columbia, and alternating- and direct-current!}

I also notice the SMELL of tube amps...caps, resistors, transformers.

I like listening to music in shorts and a T-Shirt.
I have no problems with that. And my cartridge is always right on temperature.

I love the smell of tubes in the morning.....it smells like victory!

PS My closet actually has a tiny window in it I can use as a vent if it gets too hot, but it really never does get that hot in there. Now I'm just running my pre-amp and front end out of the closet while the amps are out in the room with cages on them. But when the amps were in there it was still no problem...never had to open the tiny window. Mind you these are 300B sets and not not one of those christmas tree amps with a bakers dozen EL34's though. I'd imagine the later may turn any closet into a sauna....hey, there's another idea!