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