Again the topic of weight of amps

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. 

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.

@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 ;-) .

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  

Encouraging the OP to not at least give a good class D amp a free in-home audition for a month is just willful ignorance, akin to encouraging not hiring the most intelligent and competent black job applicant because of their skin color.

Well, I read it, but I refuse to believe that I read it.