Justin & Jerry's Hifi Blog

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Originally Posted by struth

youve got a muscle?:ner:

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I was also quite surprised. These days they are just there to go wrong. Like an appendix.

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Originally Posted by Macca

I was also quite surprised. These days they are just there to go wrong. Like an appendix.

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know what u mean. i couldnt get the seat off the scooter today. a guy eventually came and managed it although he struggled too. somehow its jamming

I've found heavy = good to be pretty much infallible

If you ever find yourself banged up in prison sharing a cell and your on bottom bunk , lay there and wonder what if.

So, amplifier sound quality is proportional to its weight?
Hmm.

The heaviest amp I've owned must be the MF F18 at 53kg.
Certainly not the best sounding.

The ballsiest amp was probably the Krell KAV250a slamfest at 19.5kg. Good amp, actually.

The Pass X150 was a fairly boring sounding 28kg.

Hmm -- the lighter the better, so far. :scratch:

My current Trigons come in at 23kg a pair, and I love them to bits. But even then that's cheating with 2 chassis where the others have only one.

And I do love some of the little class D amps at a few 100g to a few kg.

So, no, amplifer mass as an indicator of sound quality is a load of bollox imho. :eyebrows:

Valve amps are probably another matter, where there is a correlation with the amount of iron in the output transformer.

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Originally Posted by jandl100

So, amplifier sound quality is proportional to its weight?
Hmm.

The heaviest amp I've owned must be the MF F18 at 53kg.
Certainly not the best sounding.

The ballsiest amp was probably the Krell KAV250a slamfest at 19.5kg. Good amp, actually.

The Pass X150 was a fairly boring sounding 28kg.

Hmm -- the lighter the better, so far. :scratch:

My current Trigons come in at 23kg a pair, and I love them to bits. But even then that's cheating with 2 chassis where the others have only one.

And I do love some of the little class D amps at a few 100g to a few kg.

So, no, amplifer mass as an indicator of sound quality is a load of bollox imho. :eyebrows:

Valve amps are probably another matter, where there is a correlation with the amount of iron in the output transformer.

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My findings are equal to yours Jerry , my teac AI3000 was 30+kg’s as too was the Denon monster , only big in size and then the relatively smaller and lighter 20kg’s Krell blows them away .


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I said heavy = good, not heaviest = best


Aside from that I wasn't being entirely serious. And class D amps can kiss my shiny metal ass. :D

A Friend tells me he bought a pair of speakers from a "white van man" a few years ago, and he said they looked pretty good and were quite large. Not very heavy, but the price was right. When he got them home he found there was nothing in them, they were empty cabinets.

I suppose the moral of the story isn't that weight=good, more that components do make a difference, especially absent ones :(

Light airy presentation

Apparently the soundstage was holographic, like the sound wasn't coming from the speakers.

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Originally Posted by jandl100

So, no, amplifer mass as an indicator of sound quality is a load of bollox imho. :eyebrows:

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Nah. Bollox.

:)