I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear

The total weight of my stereo setup is about 450 kg (1000 lbs). I just dragged it to a room on the 3rd floor without an elevator with my friends once, I don't need to run around with it any further, and I don't need to change it at all because of the weight.

I parted with my beloved 87lb stereo tube amp for two 42lb mono tube amps partly for this reason.  Speakers get disassembled just to move them myself. Argh.     

I’m all about lighter weight gear, I’ve had 120lb Sonic Frontier tube amp, big heavy Brystons, Odyssey... Then I found Channel Islands Audio, my current setup is a

E-200 stereo amp that weighs about 15-20 pounds and it’s great I changed all the fuses to those Synergistic Orange fuses, have a Acoustic Zen Krakatoa power cord on it and Golden Sound cones under it and it's the best sounding amp I've ever had with the tweaks, my Schiit Yggdrasil DAC weighs way more like close to 30 pounds and is bigger.

I doubt I’ll ever go back to heavy big power amps again. Also the Channel Islands doesn’t heat the whole room, it does run pretty warm but nothing like a huge tube amp. My next amp might be those Atma Sphere class D mono blocks which are like 15 pounds each.

I will be 65 soon.  I have back and heart problems.  My speakers are B&W 803-D that my (now defunct) dealer delivered and placed in my upstairs listening room almost 20 years ago.  It took two strong guys then.  I want new speakers but we are also contemplating moving, hopefully to a single level, so no point in doing it until that happens.

Yet another reason to explore the excellent offerings from AGD and Atmasphere.  Now you can have your cake and lift it.