Originally Posted by kswanson
Originally Posted by George Mills
Check out these guys, I love their stuff. Very modular, nicely built.

http://www.salamanderdesigns.com/

The thought of "exhaust fans" in a cabinet makes me cringe.

Cringe? How come?

I like natural cooling. It's like having a fan in amp or preamp that isn't well designed to cool passively. It's generally not needed.

That's why I love the salamander stuff. You can have all 4 sides open, or screened, or glass or wood. You pick and choose what's needed on each module.

I have open front and rear and screened sides.

Many components that do have fans will ramp up based on temp. I like seeing things cooled passively and minimize total fan noise.

Stuffing high end components in a closed cabinet then adding forced air to compensate just doestn't make sense to me.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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