[Amps] Quiet Cooling

scm scm at carrollsweb.com
Mon Sep 6 19:45:58 EDT 2004


Will,

Rich is way ahead of you on the plywood :-) 
I can almost see roll and pleated naugahyde covered amps now. Are naugas extinct yet?

73,
Steve  wd0ct


> Hal, and others,
> 
> There may be a way of using baffles with an internal enclosed fan. 
> Speaker cabinet construction uses some features where acoustic engineers 
> design a majority of them in industry. That would be a good person to 
> speak with if we could stir one up. Suppose a high output muffin fan 
> were placed in an acoustic deadened enclosure using available sound 
> deadening materials. There's some foam sheet available really cheap for 
> this at Parts Express (http://www.partsexpress.com/). Another thought 
> would be to make the amp chassis like large speaker and guitar amps and 
> or speaker enclosures using the leather look vinyl, etc. I have to say, 
> I have always wanted one built this way as they really look good 
> compared to plain painted aluminum, or steel chassis. This way, any ugly 
> enclosure could be made exceptionally good looking with exceptional 
> sound deadening. A 1/4" plywood carcus with the black vinyl cover, black 
> or chrome corner guards, black anodized face plate, white 



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