A pleading request to manufacturers of amplifiers and preamplifiers.


 At this time I would like to make a pleading request to manufacturers of audio electronics.  Please in the name of all that is holy stop putting sharp heatsinks on the outside of your devices. In the decades that I have been involved in this hobby the collected skin that has been carved from my toes, ankles, fingers, hands, wrists, forearms, etc. is equal to the combined weight of a professional football team. The blood I have lost could have saved the lives of 100 hemophiliacs. I have come to fear my own devices as if they were the vampires or werewolves of legends. Can you not round the edges, put covers over them or locate them inside the case? Freddie Krueger has not inflicted as much carnage as the combined horror of all this equipment. The combination of 50 lbs. of transformer weight and 6 square feet of rabid heatsink is a guarantee of laceration when moving any of these monsters. So if anyone out there can hear me I am begging, pleading, will pay for, changes to this abominable practice of covering your products with ravening metal blades lusting after our flesh.Thank you.
shashanka
Try one of these:
https://benchmarkmedia.com/collections/all-products/products/benchmark-ahb2-power-amplifier

12.5 pounds, rounded edges, simple to use, with some of the best specs ever measured on a power amp.  Footprint similar to a sheet of letter-sized paper. $2999 new.

Grow up all of you and act like adults.
What do you all cut meat with??
Do you want to buy safe knifes?

My KRS200s with dozens of blade-like fins all around are potentially lethal, plus they weigh 200lb each.
I've moved them single-handed to (re)install four times and in more than 30 years not cut myself once walking past.

Just be a bit careful.


Very happy with my no fin tube amp but if I was forced to go SS, my first choice would be a Sanders Magtech...no fins that I can see from the pictures.
"What do you all cut meat with??
Do you want to buy safe knifes?"

I don't buy stereo gear to cut meat.
"My KRS200s with dozens of blade-like fins all around are potentially lethal, plus they weigh 200lb each."
So you agree with me that there is a problem.
The OP needs to switch to Class D amps.  Put a furry blanket on them and they are downright snuggly.