Anybody heard Krell SACD mkIII?

Got mine today in Germany in exchange for my old MK1 device (+ 2000 Euro + 19%tax). Sound is brilliant (would say better as before) and the transport is quieter but also takes a few seconds more to recognize a SA/CD. It can also play MP3 44.1KHZ CDs. The new blue/white LCD display now can show CD/track title - however, it seems to be a bit too small to exactly fit into the chassis box of the old display - cosmetically not perfect! The new remote does not let you select a filter or dim the display anymore and also hasn't that fluorescence effect of the old one - so if you are going to trade-in your old player keep the old remote! Conclusion: Imho it's worth upgrading due to the better sound and better transport and control boards which apparently were taken from the EVO player. In most parts it's a 505 EVO in a SACD Standard chassis - unfortunaley some of these 505 parts weren't designed for use in the SACD Standard - so it's not as perfect as you would expect for a device carrying such price tag. Maybe one of the reasons that they pulled it from their website.

Has anybody figured out what krell does for the MKIII upgrade?? I got mine back and it is the finest CD player I have ever heard...which is quite a bit!

Interesting thing is that they pulled the mk III from their web site (and prolly cased the production as well). My guess is that too many owners of mk I and mk II requested the mk III upgrade free of charge.

Sad that such a great sounding SACD player (finally) will be no more...except in my house baby!!

Just got sad news:Krell ran out of chassis supports for Raymedia transport and my unit replacement will take 2 more weeks.Can anybody tell me how to tell Raymedia drive from the Philips one?I don't trust anybody anymore and just want to make sure the drive is replaced.Thanks.