b&k amps

haven't heard them myself but i do have a 202+ amp. if thats any indication of the sound, i would say they would be just fine. nice clean,smooth sound without the big price tag. if the price is right, you couldn't go wrong

In my opinion, I would give them the nod as the go to value for amplification now that Krell has abandoned their design principles in favor of euro industry guidlines...in other words, the new amps suck! The B&K stuff was born out of some former Krell guy's ingenuity. The amps are well built, musical and a stone cold bargain.

had the older B&K 200mono's and thought they were excellent.

I had a Ref 220a stereo SS amp from BK... took it back after two weeks... bought a krell kav 250.... sold that off as well.

That was nine years ago this winter... perhaps the newer ones are better. Neither amp sounded refined or intently musical... the BK was thin and strident, and the Krell was just a big brusier and far better suited to HT than to music... they both, very likely would have been lots better if paired with a tube preamp.... but that was then....