My custom Tyler Acoustics MM5's are 42" and a bit over 100lbs each.
What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest?
Just wondering.
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maggies the tallest. university theatrical blasters the heaviest, tied with the maggies for height but they were about 3' wide pentagonal in shape and each one was prolly over a hundred pounds. with just a watt or so those speakers would energize the air in the room and make you feel like you were at a concert. relatively colored though, not even comparing them to the maggies. |
B@W Matrixs 800 245lbs each over 6 feet tall |
Tallest - Maggie 3.6 Heaviest (and the best) - Koss 1a These 200 pound beasts were full range electrostatics (down to low 30’s with no dynamic drivers) were also the best I’ve owned. One of the sadly forgotten speakers from the late 70’s. Any planar fan who has not heard these, is missing out on a true classic. No question in my mind, they would still be an audiophile speaker to recon with. They had an easily fixable bass hump at 50 hz (load up the inside of the cabinet with plasti-clay to dampen the resonance). They also did not have any serious volume limitations. They could rock. |
My current speakers are the biggest and heaviest I've ever owned. They're 91" tall, and I forget the combined weight of each speaker stack but I believe it's around 600 pounds. These are modular stacks of mostly bass horn rather than solid monoliths. There'd be no way to get them in the house if they were solid. |
I don't know what my A/D/S L1530 speakers weighed, but at almost 5' they were the tallest (and possibly the heaviest). Heaviest I can remember are my Paradigm Studio 60s. 4' tall and weigh 70 lbs. each. Ok, a quick Google search puts the L1530s at around 115 lbs. each. I knew they were heavy, but at 23 I had no problem moving them around. The 70 lb. Paradigms get the attention of my now 60 year old back with a quickness. Heck, my amp is a pain to move now. LOL |
I guess that I will always like making heavy stuff. The speakers that I have now are 80 lbs. each and 40" tall. Pretty narrow at 11" wide, and 15" deep. So, for their size, they are chunky. Making a set of even heavier speakers out in the shop. Basically, it is the layers of MDF, solid walnut, and Corian that add up. |
One-off Super Big Reds, tri-amped with a one-off electronic crossover, and one-off passive eq units between the Marantz and horns.
Uses two Marantz 170DCs for the four woofers and a Marantz 1180DC for the preamp and horn amp. Cabinets are solid oak with 15.5 cu ft exterior volume. I got these from a recording studio that went out of business.
A meeting of the JBL/Lansing group was held here and everyone agreed these were the best sounding 604s (604E2s) anyone had ever heard. |
@roxy54 , Some of us did. 😄 “When I started the thread, I assumed that everyone would name the brand and model of the speakers, not just the height and weight. I think that makes it much more interesting.” |
Classic Audio T-3.4 Field-Coil powered 24" W x 30"D × 48"T, weighing in at 350 lbs. Best sounding, most dynamic loudspeaker I have ever owned by far. It makes me believe that size does matter in some respects. Monkey coffins just won’t do what these do. I can play these at a lower volume with very satisfying fidelity. And with that, yeah these speakers are like 98db 16Ω with a fairly friendly impedance curve, so they will perform delightfully on just a few watts, but put like a hundred watts to them and there is a sense of better overall control and impact. The razors edge you now face is as amps tend to get bigger and more complicated they tend to not be as tonally pure and airy in their presentation. So with these I have found a sweet spot of running Atma-Sphere MA-1 Mk.3.3 OTLs which produce 140w @8Ω. Single gain stage triodes, and it works quite well. |
NHT 3.3’s. I think they were 120 lbs ea. Interesting speaker. I loved Ken Kantor, but cursed his name every time I moved. Emailed him once to tell him. That (sexist) WAF was no joke. The 3.3 had a very low WAF. “Those would look great in the basement”. Everybody is happier now that I have smaller and slightly less heavy speakers. |
@roxy54 --
Duly noted; Electro-Voice TS9040D LX main speakers (actively configured), and the tapped horn subs are a freely shared design over at the AVSForum (by a guy named "lilmike") called MicroWrecker (the middle sibling of the LilWrecker and PicoWrecker tapped horns). Mains are 6 ft. tall and mains + subs combined weigh in at ~385lbs (175kg) per channel. My setup is display in Steve's video blog below from 8:07.
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