Different amps for summer and winter?


I live in Southern New England, where the temperature gets to about 100 on the very worst summer days, and falls to below 0 in January or February. I've wondered, half seriously, about having two sets of amps -- a pair of class A babies to warm up my listening room in the winter, and a very cool running set of, say, class D amps for the summer months. Is there anyone out there who actually does this?
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Showing 1 response by sfar

Yep, I have a Cary Sli-80 F1 for winter and a Simaudio I-5 LE for summer. Same thing in my office, a Jolida FX10 tube amp in winter and a DIY chip amp in summer.

I just made the switch to the summer amps two days ago. I moved back to Austin, Texas, a few months ago and hoped to get to May 1 with the tubes before they had to start battling the air conditioner. I used the same system in Seattle, tube amps in the long, cool fall/winter/spring and solid state in the summer in a house with no air conditioning. (The joke in Seattle is that there are two seasons, winter and August.)

Beyond the comfort and economic considerations, it's interesting to hear again the differences between the amps.