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The SC-05 did run pretty cool, and cooler than the -79 (I think they were still using Class D but weren't using the original ICE amps they used in the -05). My memory is likely more applicable to the -79 than the -05, which was retired when I bought the later model.

Both the 4400 and 4500 run pretty cool as well. Full disclosure I have them in open-air and not enclosed. But noticeably cooler than my Pioneer Elites with the Class D amps (I had the SC-05 and SC-79) and way cooler than my old (now gone) Sony ESs from the late 90s.

As an owner of both the Denon 4400 and 4500, I can unreservedly recommend them. I'd owned Pioneer Elites before them, and prior to that, NAD and Sony ES, but am a Denon convert now.