Chrome stripping

[NickB]

Something everyone should understand if they haven't caught on by now is 100% of everything I do is mechanical rather than electronic. I mean sure, I can solder, build interconnects, power cords and passive power conditioners but my abilities are limited to mechanical in nature tho some can have a dramatic effect on electronics. The things I know about fluid and thermal dynamics, convection cooling, air flow, boundary layer disturbances etc all come from previous mechanical pursuits. Tho I'm not completely daft as it relates to electronics I'm no wiz-kid either. S'why I can't recognize a thermal sensor when I see one! But I'm an exceedingly quick study! And ya gotta know I'll be making no effort to rebuild any power supplies or the like... "Man's gotta know his limitations!"

My attempts at improving temperatures and SQ are purely mechanical and relying on totally on reducing EMI/RFI via elimination of magnetic plating, fasteners etc while thermal efforts rely on vastly more efficient radiant surface finishes and convection cooling. If you look closely at what I'm doing there's hardly an electronic tweak in the house!

But I'm curious about the 250. How much cooler does it run? The only numbers I'm trying to better are what the 200 GUI shows, ie:
A 44C
D 45C
S 47C

Above numbers based on post 24 hour continuous run time in a room thats 28-29C ambient. Those numbers are repeatable & constant at volumes from -028 to -32dB

I am fairly certain that Devialet said that any temperature up to 65C was no problem for continued running of the amp and have also seen on other forums (fori) that more important is to have individual solid state devices in the same unit running at the same temperatures. Not sure apart from the feel good factor of running at lower temps you are going to get, but very happy to wait and see/hear.