Berning amps are very light!
Again the topic of weight of amps
I see this has been covered but not recently.
I have had a few amps in the 100+ pound range.
I liked them enormously but I am in a small space and am tired of dealing with these behemoths when I need to move them around and the real estate they take up. They were all wonderful in their way and I would like to have kept them but for their immobility. But can one find true love after such heavy weights with a feather weight 55 pounder?
Have technological advances in 2019 made such a thing possible? I had a pass 350.8 which I loved but you can't keep a Stonehenge rock in an apartment living room.
I have had a few amps in the 100+ pound range.
I liked them enormously but I am in a small space and am tired of dealing with these behemoths when I need to move them around and the real estate they take up. They were all wonderful in their way and I would like to have kept them but for their immobility. But can one find true love after such heavy weights with a feather weight 55 pounder?
Have technological advances in 2019 made such a thing possible? I had a pass 350.8 which I loved but you can't keep a Stonehenge rock in an apartment living room.
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roxy1927 If you’ve got speakers that can be bi-amped a Schiit Aegir 20w Class-A on the mids and highs and a Schiit Vidar for the bass, both amps are proper linear solid state with linear power supplies, not big (about the size of a shoe box each) or heavy or expensive. $1500 for both. You’d have to use a passive like the $49 Schiit SYS on the input of the Vidar to equal both amps gain, as it’s higher gain at 22db than the Aegir at 12db. Then your active preamp volume control would be the master and drive both the SYS and the Aegir inputs. https://www.schiit.com/products/aegir https://www.schiit.com/products/vidar Cheers George |
I suspect Michael Green might be on to something when he says he went to very low mass systems, especially low mass amplifiers. If thy eye 👁 offend thee pluck it out. It’s no secret that big honking transformers produce toxic magnetic fields that distort the sound and that transformers produce mechanical vibration that affects everything in the chassis, especially given that transformers are bolted down to the chassis. |
When threads request equipment recommendations like this one, it seems that readers for some unexplainable, unhelpful, strange and annoying reason, often consider these types of threads as invitations to just blindly name whatever gear they happen to use. An example? miketuason reads the OP's request for a high quality, good performing amp in the more reasonable 55 pound range and he inexplicably gets the urge to post: "I have the McIntosh MC601 monoblocks 600watts, only 95lbs each." ONLY 95 pounds? What? EACH? What the F? Why would anyone feel the need to post this? How exactly is this relevant? Or helpful? Doesn't this poster realize his amps are roughly double the requested weight.....EACH! Why did he feel the need and take the time to post at all, right? Tim |
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