Slappy- it might be more of a concern in Car audio based on the "mobile environment", but I can see home audio geeks, er I mean cool guys like us, really getting into it.
Hell, you could have an amp that was warmed up to operating temp by warm water and end that annoying 20 or more minutes you have to endure of less than perfect highs or grainy vocals when you get home from work. You'd switch on your amp with it already at a perfect temperature for optimum listening...
As the evening progressed, the system would convert to cooling the water. A simple Peltier device could both heat and cool the water as needed, and as controlled by a simple thermistor. With the size of amps nowadays, and the ton of "aesthetically pleasing empty space" many contain, you could put the whole sealed pre-heating / cooling system inside the box. Carefully designed, the water could circulate via convection currents and wouldn't even need a pump. How cool (pun intended) would that be?
I think Eldartford's onto something, and the resident rocket scientist is probably in his laboratory as we speak converting an amp to liquid temperature control.
Hell, you could have an amp that was warmed up to operating temp by warm water and end that annoying 20 or more minutes you have to endure of less than perfect highs or grainy vocals when you get home from work. You'd switch on your amp with it already at a perfect temperature for optimum listening...
As the evening progressed, the system would convert to cooling the water. A simple Peltier device could both heat and cool the water as needed, and as controlled by a simple thermistor. With the size of amps nowadays, and the ton of "aesthetically pleasing empty space" many contain, you could put the whole sealed pre-heating / cooling system inside the box. Carefully designed, the water could circulate via convection currents and wouldn't even need a pump. How cool (pun intended) would that be?
I think Eldartford's onto something, and the resident rocket scientist is probably in his laboratory as we speak converting an amp to liquid temperature control.