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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.

roxy1927
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noble100
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geoffkait,

     Speaking of Resistance…..Oh, never mind.  I'm practicing my admirable restraint.

Tim
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Is that supposed to be passive resistance? 😳
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geoffkait,

Active resistance, to Dopey Donny the Orange Racist Baby. Woops, there goes my restraint.
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Are you out of mind?
mitch2
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Perhaps....
@noble100 
"There’s been very good class D amps on the market for at least the last 5 years, maybe longer...."
I owned NC1200 amplifiers and while they sounded ok, I also owned three sets of conventional Class A or AB amplifiers at the time that I liked better.  A couple of reviewers have mentioned traits that I heard with those Class D amplifiers (i.e., read the Mono & Stereo review of the Kalugas) and I ultimately couldn't live with them.  The bass sounded good at first but it was unnaturally over-damped and not what I hear from live music.  The bass from my Class A Claytons sound way better to me and even better defined without the truncated over-damping.  I will only speak to the Class D amplifiers I have owned but they are among the amps you listed as "very good."

Back to transformers, I am currently having some amps built and they will have large Plitron low noise toroids.  From what I hear, Plitron has the noise issue mostly worked out on their low-noise version transformers.  The amplifier designer also uses heavy metal plates and damped stand-offs to mount the transformers so...fingers crossed.  My Claytons have two large toroids in each monoblock and they are pretty quiet so I guess I am lucky.
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