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In Reply to: RE: Heat and your gear posted by Bill Bond on June 27, 2015 at 18:06:37
Here's 20 EL34 tubes worth of glorious sounding heat, 10 per 250-watt monoblock. This worked out fine in the cool basement in our other home but since moving to our new place with a fairly small home office listening room, these had to go.
BTW, if you like the sound of tubes or most any other amp for that matter, stay away from these Brystons. They are the 'anti-tube', cool running, but cold sounding, sterile, dry, clinical, lean, and unlistenable.... for me anyway. I tried warming them up with a couple different tube linestages but was spending too much time trying to 'fix' the root of the problem. Ended up selling the Brystons. I'm not a Class D fan but I have to say that I preferred the Wyred4Sound SX-500 monoblocks better than the Brystons.
Unless you need hefty power, you might like the Ayre AX-7e 60wpc integrated amp. I now run the vacuum tube Rogue Cronus Magnum (x4 KT120s) in the winter and the Ayre AX-7e in the summer.
My Home Office Summer Amp:
My Home Office Winter Amp:
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How much heat does a Rogue CM throw off? As I posted previously I use a Sherwood integrated S-5000. And I am surprised how little heat it produces. Obviously compared to bigger solid state and bigger tube amps. But one sweeeeeet sound!
charles
I really need coffee before i post!
The Rogue isn't a huge amp but my listening room is rather small and with the doors closed the Rogue WILL contribute to room heat.
I'm not sure exactly how much heat it puts out but I believe it is over 200-watts continuous. I'd have to measure to be sure. You can convert to BTU/hr by taking continuous Watts dissipation x 3.412 approx*.
I know that my Ayre AX-7e draws much less power and puts out less heat.
*Combine that with other items in the room like lighting, sun coming in the windows, computer, monitor screen, and human heat output, and it all adds up quickly. The typical rule of thumb for human heat output is about 100-watts, unless you're a Class D human of course!
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