Stuck point!


Hi, 
I am returning to the experts to get an opinion. I sold my PS Audio M 700 mono blocks thinking I was ready to pull the trigger on the Wellsenton R800i. I know their are great similarities between some of the Line Magnetic amps. around the same price point of just under $3,000, almost identical except for tubes. So, their are options if I chose to go with another well known brand. Here are the issue/s..  I have a fairly small treated room and I keep hearing it will “heat the room up.” I don’t know if it will be problematic or an overstatement. Plus the issue of bass. It may not produce good base which is a problem since I loved the class D amps bass. Lastly, speaker sensitivity, most of my speakers have 87db and up except for the LS50’s. Thanks, don
mrdon

Showing 1 response by elliottbnewcombjr

change to tubes, adds heat

add fan adds noise

in-room fans push heat, they don’t remove it, unless they ’exhaust’.

my small office: tube amp: can you add a small very quiet exhaust fan in the ceiling? Not any fan, I paid extra for a fan so quiet I forget it is on. It is in the far corner from me, and gently removes the hot air near the ceiling, dumps it into the attic, has a little self opening/closing damper. If outside wall it could dump outside, consider insulation in that case.

You grab the power from your room’s existing light switch, add a fan switch just above, pull wire up to above, small load, just add to existing circuit. No holes were needed in the wall. Note: some fan switches have lights when on, I should have done that.

Or, grab the power from attic light, down to wall switch, back up to fan.

check the boxes, ceiling or wall, quiet, get clues, then do some more research, don’t over-do the cfms, just enough for your space, keep ’sones’ low.

https://www.lowes.com/pl/Bathroom-fan-Quiet-under-1-5-sones--Bathroom-fans-heaters-Bathroom-exhaust-...

you can dump the heat into an adjacent room normally unoccupied, and normally quiet, i.e. garage, unoccupied office cause you aren't in it .... you don't want noise getting into the listening space thru the fan.