"The Heat Pipes are coming"... The Heat Pipes are


What is a Heat Pipe? and why you should care. A Heat Pipe( hp from hear on out)is a heat transfer mechanism that combines the principles of both thermal conductivity and phase transition to efficiently manage the transfer heat between two solid interfaces. And why should you in Audio-land care. In short the Heat Pipes (hp) transfers heat from audio equipment and audio listening rooms to make them both sound better. That's a bold statement for sure. But before you boil over and get ready to blast my post, remember there is Heat Pipe (hp) in the very computer or Laptop you are on right now. It's keeping everything in your computer cool inside so it can work as efficiently as possible. A hp contains no mechanical moving parts, and typically require no maintenance. The hp's are PASSIVE devices that are place on top of equipment and placed in your listening room. In short my dedicated listening room with sound reinforcement, diffusers, dedicated lines, and all kinds of isolation devices for my equipment. I Have never addressed the heat coming from my equipment. Since I have all solid state gear, I never thought it was necessary. But when I started putting the hp's on top of my amps near the transformer. There was a noticeable improvement. Then I did the same with my preamp near the power supply the same improvement. Then I put one on all 4 of my players, SACD,DVD-AUDIO,CD, CD 5-DISC players I was sold. The cherry on top was when I put the extra hp's around my listening room. IMPORTANT: I did not have to remove one piece of sound reinforcement when I introduce the hp's in the environment. They just make what's there work better. They look like Aluminum heat sinks with two copper tube coming out of them. I do have one that has 4 copper tubes in it, and looks to be all copper heat sinks included. I even have some that do not have any copper tubes at all , just all aluminium. The ones with the copper tube are better than the all aluminum ones everywhere I compared them at, which was everywhere. So let that Heat Pipe (hp) in your computer go to work and give me your feed back if you think like me that the "Heat Pipes are coming"... "The Heat Pipes are coming".
jejaudio
03-28-11: 6550c
Most desktop pcs do not have heat pipes. You would know, because they vent out of the case. Heat pipes are mainly used be the overclocker tweek-geek builders.
You may be thinking of computers that utilize water-cooling. Heat pipe-based coolers, at least those that I am familiar with, vent similarly to any other conventional air-cooled design. Although I agree that they are most commonly found in high performance computers such as those built by overclockers (I am one of them).

See the photos I linked to in my previous post for an example of what I think the OP is referring to.

Regards,
-- Al
Al - I agree. I can see some relevance in laptop design where larger heatsink or heatsink with fan might not fit but cannot imagine any sense of it in SS amplifier where output transistors that generate heat are already mounted to external heatsinks. Placing heat pipes "on top of my amps near the transformer" makes absolutely no sense to me. I vote for 0.00001 degree.

"You may be thinking of computers that utilize water-cooling"
Heat pipe is liquid cooling - typically ammonia with alcohol.
Thanks! Despite the constant intrusion of the OP I learned something useful from reading this thread.
Thanks! Despite the constant intrusion of the OP I learned something useful from reading this thread.
Onhwy61
Exactly. Although I'm not sure what good it'll do me, I've learned quite a bit here also.
Thanks to Jejaudio for starting this thread even though he hasn't a clue what he's talking about, IMO. If he believes his heat pipes make his system sound better and increase his enjoyment, good for him.
Hi, I found a Heat Pipe that looks like the one I have. It is called a VORTEX 752. It looks almost like the 15 Heat Pipes I have, except there is no split in the middle. It is one whole piece. Thanks Timrhu for the kind words (I think). Almarg, thanks for the link. The 1 all copper Heat Pipe I have looks like the one you are showing, except the one I have has a thick copper base plate on the back of it.