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?

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Based on sound quality and watts per channel, I think you are way off base. I have never seen a set of 500wpc monoblocks to compete with my Bel Canto's for $4000....maybe you could find a set of used Parasound JC-1's for that, but of course this is apples to oranges as used switching amps are also available on the Gon. In addition, I find the sound quality to be as good or better than highly regarded amps I have owned before such as the Pass X350 which is a house and sucks current while acting as a space heater....hmm, ever think of your electricity bill? The newer amps use a small fraction of the power of large class A units.
Sbrtoy, those ICE amps I mentioned earlier are A/B'D using Bel Canto Ref 1000 amps so your opinion may be way off base, it sure will be interesting to see what these amps can do, and to think they way 7.5lbs each!
There are new Red Dragon Minis that put out 125 watts in 8 ohms for $250 each. This is more wattage than I need, but given how great the 500 watters sound, I will probably buy a pair. Weight is to be announced but they will certainly be light weight. See 6moons news.
I was responding to Porziob, who feels they offer poor value, I am fully in the opposite camp on that...
Not only have I found from personal experience that weight is a teller of performance with amps, it is also true of preamps, cd players and DACs (but not for tonearms and cartidges). However, just being heavy does not make a product sound better and just being light doesn't make it sound worse.

There have been several mentions of class D flea weight amps. Having owned some of these (and actually currently still do), I can tell you that every single flea weight Class D powered amp would perform better with better power supplies and energy storage and with these needs also will come the weight.

It should be pointed out that for the most part, the mostly highly regarded class D amps are also the heaviest. That should tell you something!

I can invariable pick-up a DAC or CD player and just by weight tell you if it really has the potential to be great (not just average, but great). If it weight 5-10 pounds it aint gonna be a world class contender! An just weighing 50 pounds doesn't guarantee it will be world class. But at least I can look at weights and know which ones to throw out with the bath water as not up to requirements.

Every component benefits from the highest quality power supplies. Unforunately, the highest quality power supplies in terms of audio performance come with a lot of weight.