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Amplifier Weight. A Factor?

With majority of the good high-end amplifiers exceeding 100lb, it is actually painful to move them. So, here are questions to all.
Is amplifier’s weight a factor in your amplifier selection?
If you own heavy weight amps (i.e. Krell FPB600/180lb, Levinson 33/365 lb), how do you handle them without scratch?

Ldk
ldk
porziob
316 posts
 
Weight most definitely is a factor. My butler & valet both have hernias. As soon as they recuperate from surgery, I`m buying a new, heavier amp.
jtimothya
551 posts
 
Everything else being equal (and in reality it never is) the reason that large amps are very heavy is they have very heavy transformers which you really need to get high quality power and things like subterranian bass.

Unless of course your amps have superb, richly toned and articulated bass, reveal hand built quality, output 135 watts into 4 ohms, have *no* transformer, and weigh in at a paltry 35 pounds each. I suppose this is the vanishing equality part of reality you were getting at. :-)

Cheers,
Tim
unsound
6,115 posts
 
Depends on the technology.
sbrtoy
122 posts
 
My Bel Canto Monos weigh 13 pounds each, put out 500 watts, and definitely have the bass extension and impact....new technologies will someday make the monster amps antiques...
mechans
2,999 posts
 
Yes the pounds sound.
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