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Krell KRS 200 mono amps

Tony L

Tony L

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Just the thing if you like the sound of an electric meter spinning. Also a useful stand for a Quad 303 or 50E.

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KRELL KRS 200 MONOBLOCKS VERY RARE COST £20000 IN THE LATE 80,s Faults.ask. | eBay

May take part x,ask. Matched serial number pair. Not been touched since failure and all original-will need capacitors etc and fully service,hence price. Will need a weeks notice before collection as now in storage.
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Crikey - they're absolute monsters! I cannot imagine where you would position those, let alone the cost of running them.
 
I shared a London flat with someone with a KSA200 for a while. No way was that electric bill being split down the middle! The house lights dimmed on power-up and the meter spun like a child’s spinning top. Lovely amp, but just so excessive.

FWIW I still think the original KSA50 was peak-Krell. No one should need more power than that. I assume the fans could be swapped with really quiet ones from gaming PCs these days too. I do like the KSA50, it is a very nice sounding amp.
 
A full recap on each unit, just big psu caps is £600, I did a rebuild on a ksa 200 about 8 years back but I nut and bolted it, every single cap, respray, new transistors, Still made a profit.
 
sq225917 said:
A full recap on each unit, just big psu caps is £600, I did a rebuild on a ksa 200 about 8 years back but I nut and bolted it, every single cap, respray, new transistors, Still made a profit.
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These are KRS, totally different level of cost, custom everything from Krell. You would have to ship them to Krell in the US for repair, not cheap. I had a pair of KAS-2 and the shipping and insurance was 800, it won't have gone down in cost.
 
Eoin said:
Where are Krell based, in the states?
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Yes, it was Dan D'Agostino’s company before he went full-oligarch. The KSA 50 and even KSA 100 were within the range of atainability, bit from there the trajectory was ever upwards. As stated upthread I’ve a lot of time for the KSA 50, just a really good 50 Watt class A amp. but I don’t see how the current stuff serves music lovers. It’s just trinkets for the super-rich.
 
The guy on Ebay has a fab set up - note the two box ARC pre amp in the background. Are those home brew Apogee's in the corner? Wonderful. Love seeing crazy enthusiast kit
 
Tony L said:
Yes, it was Dan D'Agostino’s company before he went full-oligarch. The KSA 50 and even KSA 100 were within the range of atainability, bit from there the trajectory was ever upwards. As stated upthread I’ve a lot of time for the KSA 50, just a really good 50 Watt class A amp. but I don’t see how the current stuff serves music lovers. It’s just trinkets for the super-rich.
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I always thought the KSA80 was the best - no bloody fans. There's one on Ebay that keeps waving at me.
 
Eoin said:
I feel we should all have a Krell in our lives, at some point.
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I would certainly like to have a KAV300i which can be had for under a grand, or the much rarer pre and power KAV amps which seem to be quite hard to find.

The really old/classic Krell like these I'd love to collect if I was rich. I love the aesthetics! But that would be a hobby for a multi-millionaire... Anything after the FPB series amps doesn't interest me though, and the "full oligarch" stuff that Dan does now is just stupid-greedy.
Darren said:
Are those home brew Apogee's in the corner?
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I doubt it; I'm guessing he's just removed the frames for some reason. Definitely weird.
Darren said:
Love seeing crazy enthusiast kit
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I'd say that setup, apart from the modded Apogees, is a classic late 70s highend setup. These are all the original American high-end brands in one system. Krells then were the only amps I believe that could happily drive the Apogees. ARC gear looks like crap to me mostly, but I'd love to have a proper vintage Krell-Apogee system (with a CDP).
 
Doomlord_uk said:
I would certainly like to have a KAV300i which can be had for under a grand, or the much rarer pre and power KAV amps which seem to be quite hard to find.

The really old/classic Krell like these I'd love to collect if I was rich. I love the aesthetics! But that would be a hobby for a multi-millionaire... Anything after the FPB series amps doesn't interest me though, and the "full oligarch" stuff that Dan does now is just stupid-greedy.

I doubt it; I'm guessing he's just removed the frames for some reason. Definitely weird.

I'd say that setup, apart from the modded Apogees, is a classic late 70s highend setup. These are all the original American high-end brands in one system. Krells then were the only amps I believe that could happily drive the Apogees. ARC gear looks like crap to me mostly, but I'd love to have a proper vintage Krell-Apogee system (with a CDP).
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More like mid eighties. But, yes. A beautiful period set up from the golden age of the American High end.
 
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