What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest?


Just wondering.

roxy54

One day: B&W Nautilus 801: 44"x21"x28" / 240lbs

My 803 is: 42"x12"x17" / 75lbs and a pain to move given its shape.

Main rooms 700sqft 13 1/2ft ceiling rooms ICF drywall is double with green glue doors are all sealed types room has its own 200amp service and its own mains transformer. It was designed for audio use when I designed my new passive home. I have 5 horn systems in my home over 600lbs. My office loudspeakers are also giants.  My office system is 2:36 in.

 

 

I can't put a scale under my mains but it took 6 guys to assemble them and 6 guys to move my bass horn would say the total loudspeaker system is approaching 2000lbs its also 10ft tall.

7pi’s at approx. 200 lbs. around 49” tall. TC9 line arrays only 60~80lbs but 101”s tall!

Heaviest Eggleston Andra 2 = 215 lbs. each!

The tallest was the Bob Carver Line Source about 8 foot tall!

ozzy

Von Schweikert dB99 SE speakers. About 115 lbs per speaker. Also the tallest I've owned at about 43". Add a couple more inches due to the custom outrigger plinth I had made for it. I still miss these speakers.

Acoustic Research Classic Model 30  153lbs each.  Serious weight- serious speaker!

PBN Montana XPS speakers.

214 lbs each.

5'9" tall with spikes on 2" thick butcher block.

You can see them in my system right now.

Classic Audio Loudspeakers T1.5 Reference. Nearly 400 pounds. 52” tall with spikes and nearly 31” wide at front. Big giant box. 

Oh yeah @cey, I've been in a coupla bands with a bassist who owned the Ampeg SVT. Both the head and the speaker cabinet were back-breakers. When I was 20-21 I was playing with an organist whose Hammond B3 and Leslie cabinet were the same. But the worst was hauling around an old upright piano from gig to gig.

I still have my KLH Nine full-range electrostats. Over six feet tall! Heaviest could be the Speakerlab 7's or the JBL 166 Horizons.

tallest and heaviest: several bass guitar cabinets

tallest and heaviest home stereo speaker: JBL L150

Tallest and heaviest speaker I've owned were some original Legacy Classics. I don't remember the height but they weighed 110 lbs. each. I remember the weight because I had to send them back twice due to shipping damage and hauling them down the stairs wasn't easy.

All the best,
Nonoise

The heaviest speakers I owned were 60 lbs each. It’s the Sonus Faber Grand Piano Concerto floorstanders. During that time, I was a young fella and could carry the speaker with ease. Nowadays, I usually consider speakers which I am able to carry alone, unaided. Usually less than 40 lbs standmount speakers.

135 lbs each. Sonus Faber Amati Traditional… these are 46”… I have had slightly taller speakers… but not as great sounding.

Paradigm Studio 20 vs Elac 2.0 B6 V2. Elac are light. Elac are great for dollars, but Paradigm was and is much smoother and refined, And much heavier build. Had Paradigm towers, Studio 60. Way too heavy to move. But nearly stellar.

Tallest and heaviest are stacked QUAD’s (7’ 10" tall frames that I built myself with three sheets of 3/4" MDF glued together), followed by the 6’ tall Magneplanar Tympani T-IVa, which are the widest (each 51", or 4’ 3". They require a wide room ;-). The ESS Transtatics stand only 42" tall (by 20" wide and 15" deep), yet weigh 140 lbs each (they are built into substantial transmission-line enclosures).

 Current speakers I listen to half the time. Pioneer S-1ex, 146lb each I believe.