What's the biggest item of audio equipment you've ever bought?

[TheDecameron]

Mine was-

https://www.meridian-audio.com/media/6927/dsp5500-digital-active-loudspeaker-datasheet.pdf

They were massive in a literal sense. Each one weighed more than me at the time and they still physically and sonically dominated a 26' x 18' room, despite the reasonable sounding 1100mm x 284mm front profiles.

 

[killie99]

Impulse h2’s & impulse Ta’us - unmanageable to move on your own. Musical fidelity kw250s was a bit of a beast as well.

 

[Pedro83]

Wilson Audio Sophia. Huge crates - 2 man job warranting a van. As for their bigger range of speakers I dread to think but 85kg in a large cabinet takes some strength.

 

[Mike Reed]

Pah ! ProAc Response Fours at 133kg EACH and 63" high x 17" deep x 14" wide.

 

[linnfomaniac83]

Probably cheating (because they're PA) but a pair of JBL SRX728s.

 

[Still]

I have a solid wooden plinth as TT table which is 100kg.

 

[Tony L]

Either the Lockwoods:

or the La Scalas:

The Tannoys are taller, Klipsch deeper and I think heavier. I remember thinking my old Isobariks were a big speaker...

 

[ToTo Man]

Pioneer SX-1250, IMF RSPM mkIV, Tannoy Edinburgh, Tannoy Lockwood Major.

All backbreakers apart from the Lockwoods which fortunately had castors and lifting handles.

 

[matt j]

Nothing silly that has required help.

Probably B&W DM2a, Chatsworths or Briks.

 

[suzywong]

Briks

 

[Still]

Tony L's Lockwoods are so massive they have lifting attachments on the side.

 

[canonman]

Not my actual pair but...

Sadly, now in Tokyo. The shipping weight was 280 Kg.....

 

[deserter]

Briks. Pile of shit.

 

[Hoopsontoast]

In terms of visual size, Maggies although very thin and light. In terms of Mass, probably anything on the Target R4 stands (ATC SCM10) or the KEF 104/2, stumpy but dense!
Then there was the Goodmans Axiom 201 and Tannoy Stirling HEs, both largish too.


System by Robert Seymour, on Flickr


System by Robert Seymour, on Flickr


System by Robert Seymour, on Flickr


System by Robert Seymour, on Flickr

 

[ToTo Man]

Not my actual pair but...

Sadly, now in Tokyo. The shipping weight was 280 Kg.....

You win.

 

[canonman]

You win.

Maybe second place too. Again, not my actual pair (which went to Australia in 2009) Mine came from the old BBC studios in Glasgow.

 

[wylton]

Brisk. Pile of shit.

Thank you for your informative contribution to the forum.

 

[hifinutt]

martin logan summit x , the boxes were bigger than coffins and I had to store them for 4 years !!!!

 

[Barrymagrec]

I did once buy something that looked similar to this:- http://www.vintagerecorders.co.uk/VR_View_Page.asp?IDS=62 but a bit older.

7 foot rack, went down in the Harlech TV lift so fast that it stopped 6 inches below normal floor level.

 

[abbydog]

Counterpoint SA9 PS is a chunky 48lb lift - and that’s only half of it. I don’t move it often.