Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll

In the winter Class A is great.  Like one guy said, the total volume, Pun intended, does not add up to much. A flight across the state in a jet, or buying an Amp from "Jyna" is more of a sin.  Be "Amurcian" be Class A. Buy a Coda 11.5 Class A .   If you want, if not, there are many great sounding cool Amps, Pun intended, amps.  

My 4 Class A monoblocks use about 1/2 kW total, which heats the room nicely for most of the year, for less than a dollar a day. Not ideally green, perhaps, but then I don't drive a pickup truck or commute 30 miles either.

Almost all push/pull class A amps are really very rich class A bias AB amps. For example the Pass 30 watt class A amps are 30 watts class A but they are reall75 watt AB amps. Look at the Stereophile tests. And things get worse as load impedance drops. About the only amps you can be sure are always class A are single ended amps which are class A due to topology and are almost always low power anyway. Then again these amps still run hot.

Perhaps the only push/pull amp that may really be called class A was the old Levison ML2 mono blocks. They were 25 watts/8 ohms, 50 watts/4 ohms and 100 watts/2 ohms and class A all the way down to 2 ohms.

While I'm all for Climate Change and have the Asthma lungs to prove that it's (I grew up in a Steeltown). My setup is kind of an Oxymoron (?). BATVK50-SE with 8 6H30 tubes and she gets very hot not long after it's turned on. The BA Preamp feeds a pair of Orchard Audio Ultra Amplifier modules which in turn are powered by a 1500VAC, 20A Torroidal.

Sounds amazing so yeah. Tubes feeding solid state is the way to go I guess.

I own a Luxman 590AXII class A and would have a hard time going back to Class D, although I have owned Class D and G before and I liked them very much. I'd go with Tubes, but don't want the hassle and then I'd get into tube rolling and that expense. I don't mind the heat at all. Odd to me that it's a big issue. 

And yeah, cut out the stupid political comments, go over to Twitter if you want that BS.