"Can You Lift Yours?"

@mulveling ... 

The amp's form factor is absolutely a big deal. 

Well, yuh....but ones' personal form factor remains the bottom line, esp. when the hands hit the chassis...  Unless your posted pic is a file photo from youth gone by, you've got a built-in 'cheat'. *mock grumble*  And it's vaguely reassuring that the 300s' pose a challenge to you, Commanding Grips notwithstanding.... ;)

Amps and speakers are the bane of most 'philes...those who gravitate to tubed power and large drivers risk damage of varied forms when age is an issue we can't ignore no more.  I'm only half kidding about a lightweight platform on wheels that could extract, lower/move/raise. and deliver the goods to the new space....

As for mahgs' Krells....the 'light industrial' variant would have to be 'beefy' (and no carpeted floors, nooo....). *L*

"Are you available on an 'on-call' basis?" 😏  (He prays i'm kidding....)

My latest and first solid state in 15 years weighs 11 pounds....   It sounds pretty amazing considering it is the size of a shoebox. 

One turntable weighs 122 lbs without the platter, another 105 lbs. I have two SS stereo amps that weigh around 90 lbs each and a 300b amp that’s close to 9 lbs a watt. At this point I’m still able to wrangle them all, but the day will come in the not-too-distant future when this will no longer be true, and I rue that day.

Anything weighing less than 50lbs isn't worth listening to, IMO.

elliottbnewcombjr, thank you for the Stewart Hegeman link.

I’ve always wanted to hear his bass cabinet solution or the Shahinian-licensed version.

I picked up a speaker the wrong way, felt a jolt of electricity in my back, involuntarily screamed in pain, but refused to drop the speaker.

I managed to hobble a few steps towards the bed and at the expense of great pain on top of great pain, threw the speaker so that it landed safely on the pillow.

Couldn’t walk for a week, took a month to recover.

For a few years now I’ve been searching for a pair of IMF RSPM MkIV or the much rarer IMF SAMC at a 105 lbs per speaker.

They’ll certainly have to reside on dollies.