Jejaudio, how do you reconcile the fact that amps have a specific optimal operating temperature with your attempt to operate them "cold"? I have numerous amps, all SS a/b. All of them need at least three cuts off the source material to start sounding good. But they all sound best when they're "cookin", so to speak. Well above their warm-up temp. The output transistors need to heat up. You can't even take technical measurements cold. To maintain a constant offset you'd have to literally refrigerate it. An amp has to stay within it's thermal boundaries - to + in order to function within it's design parameters. BTW, how old are you? I mean no disrespect. I just want to add that when I was young(that's actually a tune), I would do literally "anything" in an attempt to improve the sound. I became known as "The Butcher". After considerable destruction and subsequent reflection, I'm now much wiser. From my experience I would say attempting to keep the gear relatively "cold" is not a good idea unless it relates to passive speaker cross-overs, however that's an inherent design issue of a technology who's demise IMO is overdo. Yikes!
"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".
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