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.
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.
Proac 3 from about 35 years ago. They're about 48" tall and they have little holes in the back for pouring sand into them. Full up, maybe 100 lbs. They were my main speakers for about a decade and then moved to our vacation house. Still sound great.
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
Elac Adante AF-61s my current tower speakers, are 52” tall with spikes and over 100 pounds each. Not exactly behemoths but by far the largest and heaviest speakers I have owned.
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.
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.
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.
Some years ago I bought Sony's largest, most expensive, range topping subwoofer, about the size of a wardrobe. Part of their 'esoteric' range at the time. It was absolutely terrible. The only time it sounded fine when when it was switched off.
I'm, not sure what the JBL4343 weighs so instead I will go with the folded bass horn design that I built in high school decades ago. Right at 180 ea. and about 5 feet tall. After a couple of moves they got sold.
When I was in college I had a set of bose speakers in a chevette. that was about 3000 lbs. Probably the OEM speakers in my Mercury SUV at 5000 lbs is the heaviest. about 6’ tall. --Jerry
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