"Feel how heavy this amp is"

[fpitas]

This may have gotten traction during tube days, when you needed beefy magnetics.

 

[egellings]

1. Yes
2. No

I once visitied ATC dealer in Derby. He had a midbass driver of the SCM19s out and 'pick this up, see how heavy it is' was his tactic to sell more speakers. It was many years ago and he still is ATC dealer. Must be a good technique to sell some underperforming speakers to the innocent.

I could see mounting a brick or two with an adhesive inside a cheap speaker box to make the prospective buyer thing he's getting something special.

 

[Sokel]

Mine (one channel) is aluminum, about 14x9x2 inches.

So, maybe 15 pounds?

Won't take it off to weigh it.

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The amp is rated 350/700/1400W for 8/4/2 ohms

I've seen 140 degrees with some very sprited listening on a Beer Satureday.

102 F right now, cruising with the HDradio.

The reason I ask is cause for measuring and meeting my (low's) amp module specs (1200/600 at 4/8 Ohm mono and half of it stereo) one such is used.
So it would make sense for me to use something closer.

Weight can go easy at 70-80 pounds for the whole case and is what is needed probably.It's not that I'll ever need it's full specs,maybe I do maybe I don't.
It's the fact that that is the right way of doing it so sometimes weight is not just for show.

 

[Wyleyrabbit]

As an old guy, I can say that weight did somewhat matter back in the day. I mean, so long as it wasn't a lead plate in the bottom just to add weight for sales & marketing purposes. There was a huge difference in a receiver that weight 25+ lbs as a result of having discrete transformers for each channel, as compared with the cheaper units that had a small switching power supply shared between all of the channels.

As others have said with more modern amplifier designs, especially with the newer Class-D amplifiers, I think weight doesn't really matter as much now.

 

[Wolf11Man]

When I was finishing a subwoofer which I had been build under the floor of a living room, as a last I was installing the amp in the basement. While pulling wires the home owner came, took up the D-amp and shook it, then he asked what that was: "Empty case or what?"
He did not belive that this 3kg thing could do anything as I had promised it would do. " It's just air inside!"
When I ran a few tests, the windows on the upper floor started rattling and his fat wife came down the stairs, hystericaly crying. That convinced him of light amps doing heavy bussiness.. Was a Behringer iNuke with integrated DSP. The two 10" used the room as a horn. Worked better and lower than I had calculated.
Over the years I saw loads of "High End Specialists" checking the weight of any gear before giving useless, stupid comments about the sound quality of things they never heard performing.
If you are too stupid to understand how something works, measure it's weight...
Hey, what about boa sized loudspeaker cables?

 

[JeffS7444]

I did just now look again Didn't find my vaguely-remembered EV citation, but I did find a cousin to this thread at AK which mentioned Hanpin doin' the steel plate trick in a tt for someone. I report, you decide.

I can vouch for Audio Technica LP120USB incorporating a pair of thick steel plates, of which at least 3 kg is dead weight.

 

[mhardy6647]

I can vouch for Audio Technica LP120USB incorporating a pair of thick steel plates, of which at least 3 kg is dead weight.

They also probably cost more than all of the other bits and pieces of the record player.

 

[Mrpinortiner]

Didn't Beatz headphones use this tactic by adding useless weight inside their crappy product?