Thanks Irv, I have thermal imaging equipment {flir ti cameras} for work and often play with them, last summer my we had a house party, that system was on for hours up hours and sometimes playing quite loud. The house was around 75 degrees {due to it being 95+ outside, having 30 people over and a lot of in and out}. I was curious as to how warm the amp would get and towards the end of the night I checked it with one of my cameras, it was 106 degrees!!! That is the hottest I ever seen it, normally after listening for a while {I do a few hours at a time once and a while it will play for 8 or so if we are home all day and listening} it isn't any warmer than the coffee table in the same room.. One of the reasons I really like emo amps, my BK used to boil and my yamaha literally used to smell like fire after a couple loud movies... These towers are easy to run, crossed at 80 or so, 6 ohm pretty sensitive, not much of a work out for the xpa2 plugged into 220...
That box is my power strip, I chose that one because it turns on my subs when it senses the dac turns on, very handy since they don't have triggers, I hate auto on and off, and I wan't it easy as possible so turning the subs on every time I want to listen is out of the question... But anyway never noticed anything getting hot, I used to have an xpa3 stacked on top of an xpa2, with a umc1 all in a closed rack and them guys never got hot either...
Thanks Walter and Karl, I love sitting in this room and listening to music, I have a usb that runs to my listening position so I can play rite from laptop {cd's or streaming, it even plays sacd}, but for the most part I have my playlists saved in the ipad, I tap the one I want and I'm good for a couple hours... This room is where we do a lot of entertaining {when just a few people are over} so my wife was kind of strict with how the system looked, I am happy with it, and everything seems to work, it even matches my 1080 juke and grandfather clock...
