My 7500 runs very cool,but my speakers are very efficent.At -20 on the 990 it's rockin the room on movies and hardly working the amp by it's heat output.On 5 channel music it will get a little warmer but no more than any other amp on the market.

Hmmm...the naked pics of the 7500 are gone now....

Hi Ritz, I put the pictures back online and you may see them below.
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Regarding the hiss, I do not hear any additional hiss during power down. But, I do hear possibly the same thing Wharf Rat hears, it's a whistle or something from the speakers at power down. I can hear this from the listening position. Only way I could describe it would be like a cartoon lazer-gun or something. I just figured it was stored energy discharging.
I too use the XLR's.

It would be nice if someone could take some pictures inside a 7125.

Hey, I miss the pix, can somebody get them up here or somewhere?

I think I have them saved at work. If I can find them tomorrow, I'll post them.

Here we go, fellas:
picture 1
picture 2
picture 3
picture 4
I posted links because they're big images and I didn't want to mess up the thread.

Edcon has kindly contributed some pictures of the inside of a 7125, so I've consolidated all these pictures into a single page . It was a pretty quick bit of work and I haven't made thumbnails of the larger pics yet (all five of edcon's are very large, as well as Svet's first one) so the page will be slow to load until I get a chance to do that.

EDIT: I've gone back and added some thumbnails (so loading the page no longer requires loading 4MB of images). A number of images have links below them to the original high-res versions of the files.