Any defense of Krell is not what they've done with anything outside their amplifiers. That they can somehow degrade and/or get rid of everything else w/o it affecting the amps is an interesting point of view. D'agostino the company appears to be growing & introducing new products at the rate Krell is shrinking & refusing to introduce & improve anything. The irony definitely leads somewhere. Most here understand buying the best of what Dan designed, preowned & revivifying it is far better value & quality then buying what's currently sold under the Krell name.
Krell will continue to shrink, deepening its unblemished history over the last 8 years of improving & introducing nothing & having ever decreasing profits bled from it, until it is no longer viable. Then the name & what assets are left will be unsentimentally sold to the highest bidder. The only interesting question is whether Dan will be interested at that point.