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How hot is too hot?

I am running a Gryphon Diablo 300 to drive a pair of Magico A3.  My room size is around 3m*4.5M.  I usually listen at around the 80db level, mainly to jazz and classical music.

My room temperature is almost always kept at 26 degrees Celsius in the summer.  After operating after an hour or so, the heat sinks of the 300 often gets up to 50 degrees with the top cover at 38 degrees.  My dealer told me these temperatures are normal but I feel this is hot (too hot?).

I should also add that the amp is placed on the top of a flat open shelf so there is no question on ventilation.

Any experience by other Diablo 300 users to share?

TIA!

joeylchan

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2psyop
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AC Infinity You could try a version of this, I use one with each of my tube amps. They are very quiet and work very well to draw hot air away from the amp. AC Infinity makes many different kinds of fans to help keep electronics cool, perform their best and last longer. Just a thought....

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I don’t think it’s strange. Amplifiers don’t just supply power to any speaker you connect to it. Each type of speakers demands a particular load of current. Obviously this has much to do with the music or musical passage. If you think of an action movie in home theatre, some passages with dialogue are very easy on an amplifier but when helicopters fly and explosions are going off everywhere…the speaker is requiring more juice from the amp to replicate these sounds. It would be interesting to know what ohm rating the Magicos are and how that may fluctuate with demand. Also the sensitivity rating. I would imagine this would be different than you previous speakers.

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