Waxx
Major Contributor
I think it started with the heavy high power tube and class A amp that need space to keep cool enough (as they dispensate a lot of heat). My small tube amp already weights a 17kg (37.5lbs), and that is just a 35w amp. If you got amps that go a few hundred watts like that it can fast be to heavy for most furniture to hold and persons to lift. And if you go into the extremes like this 1500w tube amp monoblock (custom made by the owner) it becomes so big that it needs wheels to move...
Amp shown in pic is a 1500w PP tube amp with 807 output tubes designed and build by Paul Axis from Axis Valv-A-Tron, a retro reggae soundsystem out of the UK. It's used to power the subs of his 1960's style soundsystem that is full powered with tube amps. The whole system is designed and build by Paul himself, and he sells smaller versions of this retro style (mostly tube based) stuff he builds. This kind of amps (that he also builds on order for hifi) are just to big and heavy to fit in a rack. The woman next to this amp is his wife (for size reference he said) btw...
But with modern amplifies it's often not that big or heavy or heat dispensiating so it should be in a rack for me. Even my tube amp and class A amps are in a rack, on the bottom shelf, but still in a rack.
Amp shown in pic is a 1500w PP tube amp with 807 output tubes designed and build by Paul Axis from Axis Valv-A-Tron, a retro reggae soundsystem out of the UK. It's used to power the subs of his 1960's style soundsystem that is full powered with tube amps. The whole system is designed and build by Paul himself, and he sells smaller versions of this retro style (mostly tube based) stuff he builds. This kind of amps (that he also builds on order for hifi) are just to big and heavy to fit in a rack. The woman next to this amp is his wife (for size reference he said) btw...
But with modern amplifies it's often not that big or heavy or heat dispensiating so it should be in a rack for me. Even my tube amp and class A amps are in a rack, on the bottom shelf, but still in a rack.
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