Fans on amps.


Ive been checking out some posts about fans by amps but cannot find anything about them being good or bad for the amps. This is what I would like to know. Ok. I have a Krell Fpb 600 and I listen to my music about a 28-30 volume on my ARC Ref 6 which is pretty loud most of the time depending on recordings. Tonight I felt my amp like a lot of times and felt very hot like u could fry an egg on top. This is the normal with a few hrs of listening. Anyway I put a fan on the right side of amp and about a half hour later I checked the right side and was significantly cooler I mean like a night and day difference between the right and left top and heat sinks. I was wondering if adding 2 fans one on each side to cool the amp down would do more harm than good. Would I get more life out of the amp with fans ? Or are amps designed like that without using fans and just heat sinks to get rid of the heat. Btw my amp has plenty of ventilation as it is on the floor. Thanks. 
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Wow, excellent information. I was mistaken, I had 105's installed. Could you clarify your last sentence? Thanks!
I have the AC T9, seems very quiet to me. I have 80's NAD amps and never ran any cooling on them and they lasted quite well. But I did notice that I was losing some bass. I took it in and had all new capacitors and learned that there are two types of temperature ratings for capacitors. 85 degrees and 110. On my amps, it had all 85 degree caps. They are rated to work at that temp for x amount of hours. Then they start to deteriorate. Anyway, putting in all new caps Really increased the bass and the overall sound. It did however take a full month of 24/7 playing to burn in the new components. Every service person I spoke with said "keep them cool!" Now, running the amps with the fan, the temp never exceeds 82 degrees. 

Just my two cents.