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CT amplifiers come with their own adjustable rack rails and a separate
faceplate designed to conceal all mounting hardware along the sides
of the rack. The rails adapt easily to common rack depths while providing
front to back support of the chassis. Hidden inside, our unique Intelligent
Cooling Tunnel, or ICTunnel™ (pronounced Icy Tunnel) architecture and
related circuitry quietly controls the amplifier temperature, ensuring
optimum performance and reliability in enclosed, poorly ventilated
environments.
Conventional high-end amplifiers use heatsinks with high thermal mass
that rely on convection to cool the active circuits. They are slow to heat
up and slow to cool down. Eventually they heat up their environment and
as the air around them gets hotter, they become part of the problem. For
this reason, high-powered amps and racks or cabinets don’t easily mix.
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Conventional heatsinks are simply shaped pieces of metal, relying on
placement and ambient air to extract heat from the amplifier. The ICTunnel™ is more sophisticated, acting like the human hypothalamus regulating
body temperature. The ICTunnel™ utilizes an aluminum bonded-fin
heatsink, of the kind used in high powered medical, laser and test equipment.
It exploits the principle of low thermal mass, so it heats quickly but
can also be cooled quickly. Inside its relatively small size are fins providing
nearly 31 square feet of surface area. The key to its operation is how
the fins are spaced—as close as possible to each other to maximize the
surface area inside the tunnel, but not so close as to heat each other. The
ICTunnel™ utilizes a noiseless fan along with pressure and temperature
sensors to maintain the amplifier’s target temperature.
The CT series has everything you would expect from the world’s best
amplifiers. They are designed for lifetime reliability. They have the power
to effortlessly control the lowest impedances imaginable. They have the
finesse to resolve the infinitely minute details that are the DNA of great
sound. But CT amplifiers add a new dimension. For the first time the
world’s best amplifiers can go right where you need them – in the home
theater rack.
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