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Page 2 of 3 The main section of the cooler sits slightly elevated on top of four small feet to allow the fan intakes underneath the do their job effectively. The front two feet have a small silver ring on their base to fit in better with the styling of other typical home theatre hardware, so coupled with its subtle and rather understated home-theatre-esc styling you can have your A/V Cooler sitting above your amplifier and below your DVD player without disturbing the professional appearance of your setup. All four feet are also garnished with rubber soles to prevent any unwanted vibrations. One of the Front Feet  On the front of the A/V Cooler is the power switch, which has been nicely camouflaged into the lines of the unit so it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb and ruin its looks. It’s a 3-way switch with Low/Off/High settings from left to right respectively. On ‘low’ the fans will run at 1200rpm and move a total of 5.5cfm of air, on ‘high’ this gets ramped up to 1600rpm and 8.0cfm of air, which may not sound like a whole lot when compared to some PC fans and coolers, but it should be more than enough to make a significant difference to the running temperature of your home theatre gear. A power light is provided on the front with a not too overpowering blue LED, bright enough so you know it’s there, but not so bright that it makes your projector setup look weak in comparison, unlike what some manufacturers like to do with their high-intensity LEDs. Power Switch  Power Switch and Light Turned On  When the A/V cooler is running it’s supposed to be whisper quiet, even on its high speed setting, but sadly our demo unit produced a very noticeable and annoying vibration noise on both fan speeds. No matter what part I touched I couldn’t find what was vibrating to make it stop. It did stop when I turned the unit up vertically, but that isn’t exactly a practical solution. Given that Antec products generally have a very high build quality, I’d hope this is just a one-off occurrence with the particular unit we’re looking at here today. It’s not unusual for Antec to focus on the little things that make a product just that bit more enjoyable and easier to live with. In this case they’ve put some thought into the power supply for the A/V Cooler, making it a detachable cable so it’s easier to get untangled when it bonds with the typical matrix of cables behind your stereo setup, as well as making the power pack itself a very slender unit that won’t block any other power points on your power boards. Slim Power Adapter  The frame of the VERIS A/V Cooler is built to be very sturdy, making it a rather solid unit, so you can place your other stereo equipment on top, confident that nothing will break. As a basic test we put a complete midi-tower computer system on top of the A/V Cooler and it took it without so much as a creak. We decided not to test its limits because we had to give this back in a few days, but sufficed to say, it seems to be built very strong.
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