How hot do a pair of Pass Labs X600 amps run ?



According to Pass they idle at 600 watts.
I'm not an engineer, but my research translates
600W to 4,000 BTU. What have owners experienced?
Thanks.
jadew
That idle figure gives about a 150 watts of class A continuously. I have a pair running at this moment as I write. They are breathing sublime life into the toughest speaker load known to audio. The blue back lit dial is resting quietly in it's customary ten o'clock idle setting while the music flows at 70 to 80 hertz, my comfort range.
Don't know about the conversion, but surely not all of the energy is dissipated as heat. However, if they are Class A 150 wpc, I would imagine they run pretty hot, unless the heat sinking is very extensive.
The 600 white papers say 150 watts. They act like there is more. The heat sinks are huge, and do get good and hot. Each amp weighs in at 150#.
As long as the heat sink temperature is not excessive, say above 120-130 deg F, it's normal for a pair of Class A amps to run warm enough to heat the room. When I run mine all day in the winter, the rest of the rooms in the house drop 10 degrees since the T-stat is in my listening room.