Any love for newer Krell amps?

Not heard a Krell amp in a long time.

was in love with those FPB monos of years back, talk about sheer headroom and power, those were amazing!

I would have loved to see,touch,listen to the Master class monos from years back, not one dealer/shoppe near me had a pair as floor models.as I remember, they were just massive, and would even drive the MBL RADIOSTRAHLER, and large infinity’s’ and other 2-3 ohm speakers with out getting warm.

It’s a shame companies stop making amps like that, there are others like those Boulder monos at hundreds of thousands of dollars,

Krell should bring back the class A/ab behemoth amps, there is a niche market, and they do sell.

many companies toss out older versions for cheaper parts, and raise prices of inferior products.

CJ 350 amp was amazing, only thing close to it was the McCormack/ CJ dna750 monos,

the old Levinson monos,…but, levinson, for the price had lots of repair issues, unreliable, for the price paid, it should not break for 40 years!

Written several letters and emails to BIC, to consider a flagship speaker, they use good drivers, but internally, they need to be manually stuffed with damping material, they are hollow inexpensive cabinets. The older ones were done right, newer ones while descent, need to be filled with material.

anyway, I’m talking about the BIC Realta pair, those were so good for te price, and sounded so darn good, a pair just sold my me, but I honestly didn’t have the $, and I have 6 pairs of speakers in basement, wife would  have blew a neck veign if I brought home more speakers.

those Realta were so nice,I remember the midrange,treble and bass, was seperated nicely, bass was tight without being too boomy, guitar and vocals were amazingly clear and detailed.

the measley BIC venturi company, some great TT in the 70’s, and some specific models of speakers, which were very very good, V-830, formula 6 speakers, but the foam rotted quickly, and there is almost no restoration for those.

ok, done ranting.

im going to look up and drool over the old Krell master class pictures

@arcticdeth Did you see the video from Walter @ KRELL (maybe CEO) on Jays_audio_lab thread on A'gon. 

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I bought the KRELL Duo 125 XD today. An unbelievable trade-in offer for my Parasound A21+. A no brainer to get the KRELL for my RAAL SR1a since it is the best sounding amp (by far) with the SR1a. 

Now I am officially done. I thought I was done after the Parasound A21+. 

Congratulations. I’d be interested to know what you think once it’s broken in and what equipment you’re using with it. I’m using the Krell Duo 175xd with Benchmark LA4 preamp,KEF Reference 5 speakers, Innuous Zenith 3/Innuous Phoenix, PS Audio Directstream dac.

I am listening to my RAAL SR1a headphones with my KRELL K-300i in my bedroom as I type this. It is the very best sound I have gotten from these headphones. I have tried a ton of gear on these headphones because I think they are incredible and sound like 2 channel, not regular headphones, which I am not a huge fan off.

In my office I have a CODA 07x preamp which has 2 sets of XLR outputs. I set of outputs goes to my CODA #8 amp which drives my Thiel CS3.7 speakers. The second set of CODA 07x XLR outputs was previously connected to the Parasound A21+. Which then drove my RAAL SR1a headphones via an amp interface box. I thought I would be happy with the A21+ for this task but whenever, I listened with the KRELL K-300i integrated and the RAAL SR1a the A21+ was found lacking.

So, I made the crazy decision to trade-in the A21+ for the KRELL Duo 125XD. This amp will be used just with the RAAL SR1a. I know crazy but this is end game stuff for me. I was considering getting the 175XD or a used 300XD to have the option of also driving the Thiel CS3.7’s but I decided my CODA 07x and CCOA #8 were amazing and not to mess with a good thing. The 125XD will be under-powered for the Thiel.

I also have the Benchmark LA4 preamp in my office. It is also connected to my audio sources as is the CODA 07x. I just flip the XLR output from each preamp to the CODA #8 amp to change things up with the Thiel CS3.7. I will try the LA4 with the KRELL and RAAL along with the LA4 and 125XD with the Thiel CS3.7 though I expect this to be lacking in power,

Bought a Krell KSA250 32 years ago new.  Great amp that still sounds good with the right speaker.  140 pounds of finesse/muscle.  On a wait list for complete restoration.

Had an original KSA50 before that.  Also a wonderful amplifier.

Build quality of those amps resembles that of $50,000 plus products of today - actually more.  Can't afford new stuff in that category, so compromised on a set of new Pass class A mono's.

Don't even think about new Krell amplifiers, totally different product.  YMMV