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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
fleschler
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I bought an EAR 890 amp in 2006 and used it with an EAR 864 for a two years.  It sounded forward and bright on my Legacy Focus speakers.  With a custom high end pre-amp the 890 was rather thin sounding.  I replaced the pre-amp as well.  I moved the 890 to my Legacy Signature IIIs.  This was a great match.  The probable reason-the Class A 890 doesn't control 6 - 12" woofers very well but has no problem with a 1 ohm higher bass rated speaker with 6 - 10" woofers.  Matching the amp to the speakers is critical for most tube amps.  

My future may include an RM-200 MK11 or a VAC 200IQ.  Depends on my future speaker (Vimberg Tonda, Von Schwiekert VR-55, Lumenwhite Kyara).

larrykell
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I sold my wife on the Gryphon Colosseum stereo amp based on the fact that it took up less floor space than the previous amp because the Gryphon is tall and not wide. It is a slim 175lb amp, lol. I don't know why more manufacturers don't build taller amps. 
fleschler
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I can barely move my 95 lb. Bryston BIT-20 isolation transformer.  I have to rock into place my Legacy Focus speakers at 185 lbs. when I moved.  I can't imagine owning a 175 lb amp although my floor is 12" 3000 psi reinforced slab which could handle it.  I can't handle it.
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bdp24
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@fleschler, the RM-200 Mk.2 is an unusual tube amp, not behaving like a "normal" one. It has a lower-than-usual output impedance for a tube design (John Atkinson’s bench test results included in Fremer’s review of the amp), so interacts less with the impedance profile of the speaker. And whereas traditional tube amps lose power as loudspeaker impedance is lowered, the RM-200 provides 100w/ch into both 8 ohm and 4 ohm loads. It’s a good choice for he who wants traditional tube strengths without tube weaknesses. Not an overly-warm, soft-bass sounding tube amp. Or a bright, forward one, for that matter. And it weighs only 40 lbs. End of sales pitch ;-) .
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noble100
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Hello bdp24,

     No offense, but that's a pretty weak sales pitch. I understood your pitch as:
 It's really nothing special but it only weighs 40 pounds.

Tim  
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