What ever happened to Krell ?


I know they're still in business but it seems to me they've lost their hiend status they once had.
I might be wrong ,but looking at their products of late the build quality and visual appeal looks cheaper.
hiendmmoe
I agree foey but Krell has never been very attractive to me although I have always liked the sound.
I really wanted to test-drive the 330i and 550i integrateds- those (2) models were junk sourced to china for undisclosed reason?
Undisclosed? Technically maybe so. But cost considerations completely rule all policy at Krell for some time. Only less expensive versions of what came before (that hasn’t been deleted altogether), heavily discounted by their shrinking group of dealers, are their reality. The anchor will continue on it’s way downwards until selling it is more profitable then bleeding it for cash. A matter of when - not if. This is what happen when a particularly soulless & aggressively unimaginative firm takes over. Its time for it to be put out of its misery and/or let someone ease reincarnate it into something better (difficult to not do so). Perversely fascinating to see how the mighty have fallen, but beyond that......
John 1 has come out of retirement apparently to enlighten us on the ways of audio!  Jeepers, thanks so much audio guru guy...I'll bet you have added a lot of insight over the years.  Can't wait to read your other informative posts.  What?  No posts?  Darn...I'll just have to suffer in darkness.