The soundscience a/v cooler protects your home audio/video equipment by guarding the components of your home theater system against overheating. Simply place the a/v cooler on top of your hottest component and let its fans suck air up and away, keeping the device cool. Cools All Your Home Audio/Video Equipment. The soundscience a/v cooler is designed for home entertainment setups that involve multiple audio/video components that run the risk of becoming overheated. The cooler can be placed on top of stacked components such as CD changers, DVD players, tuners, or amps. It effectively cools the components underneath by taking in hot air with its two fans and expelling it through the back vents. And the sturdy, carbon-glass construction with aluminum top deck creates an ideal platform for stacking components.
$ 49.98
Antec cooling fans,
Just installed two of these in our entertainment center. One is for the Denon A/V receiver and the other for a DirecTV HD DVR. Both units are behind closed glass doors and are now cool instead of blazing hot!! And, the fan sound is not noticeable.
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|Good as a very specific solution,
So I got my cooler last weekend and I’ve been using it for a couple days. There are good and bad aspects to this unit.
The good:
It does what it says, and my receiver operates much cooler than before. I can leave my hand on the top of the receiver and it only feels warm, before it was hot hot.
The not so good:
The unit is made of cheap plastic. There is a nice looking sheet of metal on top, but it’s razor thin and only for looks. I thought there would be more solid metal in this to act as a heatsink. It’s not heavy duty at all. Even for plastic it is very light. There’s no way it’s worth the $70ish price. Charging half that would be acceptable.
When on low it doesn’t seem to move that much air. High is unusable because the fans are too loud. Since it seems to cool acceptably on low I guess this isn’t too bad of an issue. I have a graphics card silencer on my computer which uses the same fan design, and that moves a lot more air than these fans, so I was expecting a bit more flow without noise issues.
The fan switch is a junky and very cheap 3 way low, off, high. Even though the construction is cheap in general most of it is done to look nice, and succeeds. This switch is similar to something off the bottom of a $5 battery powered toy. It doesn’t fit in on the front of the unit right below the fancy blue power light.
It’s too tall! This is for cooling, so presumably it’s something you would want to use in tight spaces. The main unit thickness is good, but it has feet that extend down almost another inch. If I have this much space I almost don’t need a cooler! Thankfully, with some careful maneuvering around the lip on my shelf, it just fits. Another 1/8″ and I’d have to send it back. “Low profile” is a bit of a miss-statement.
The reason I need this product is because my cabinet is enclosed on 5 of 6 sides. Other than wiring holes, only the front is open, so that is where I need to direct the air out. This means the unit needs to be placed on top of my receiver backwards, which means the adapter plug sticks out front and center.It’s very obvious and ugly. I also can’t access the power/speed switch anymore (but I run it off a switched outlet like I image most people will). They really needed to put the power connection on the bottom of the unit and mold wire channels into the plastic that go out the front OR back (like most phones and charging stations do). The front AND back should be good looking enough to face outward, so no matter which way you want air to go it looks nice. This cooler isn’t made to sit the way I have it, but considering what users need it for, it should be. If I had an open back on my cabinet I’d have gotten some regular fans for much less money.
They make you pay for the aesthetics of this unit, but in my setup they are totally lost (the power light, the front view, and the top plate).
In the end I do recommend this product because it does its job, and it’s the only product I could find that worked for my setup. I also looked into notebook pc coolers, which are much cheaper. The design between those and this product is 95{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} the same, but the notebook coolers don’t direct the airflow the way I need and this does. If you have a setup that requires this kind of specific solution, it is worth paying for even though it’s overpriced. Otherwise I’d look into other options. It’s a few modifications away from being a great product. Maybe next gen…
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|Receiver Cooler,
This cooler works as addvertised and is attractive, I like the advisory lite (Blue) that tells you it is on. It has two fan speeds (high and low).Now I only gave it three stars because you must walk over and turn it on and off every time you use your receiver, it is composit plastic and has “so so” fans in it, not sure how long it will last. The sound of the fans running is not problem. Just to much money for what you get, it should cost no more than $49.95.
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