Not strictly Naim but...

Posted by: Stephen Rodrigues on 13 September 2001

Anyone going to the London Hi-Fi Show this weekend is strongly advised to have a listen to the Krell CD player/amp/speakers on dem in the Absolute Sounds room. I went there today on a trade-only day, and to be honest nothing hi-fi has ever blown my socks off quite like this before.
Posted on: 13 September 2001 by Mike Hanson
Is this a new player, or the one that's been out for a while? I heard a Krell player a month ago with a fancy motorized glass lid. It was painfully boring! Even the Pioneer DVD player they had setup downstairs was more enjoyable.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

Posted on: 13 September 2001 by Stephen Rodrigues
It's the KPS-25SC. Yes, it has a perspex lid. No it does not sound boring. Were you trying to play a DVD on it?
Posted on: 13 September 2001 by SaturnSF
Krell is quite good at blowing your socks off. Less good at playing music.
Posted on: 13 September 2001 by Ron Toolsie
I can remember a demo I attended at the Manchester HiFi show back in the early 80s... Oracle turntable, Sumiko The Arm, unknown cartridge, Audio Research SP10 mk2 pre-amp, Krell KSA100 power amp and Maggie III speakers. Tremendous sense of life, lyricism, pace...it did it all. As a poor student this was several orders of magnitude more than I could afford and the Linn/Naim gear peanuts in comparison. The naim approach is but one of many ways in which ones stockings can be torn from ones feet.

Ron
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Posted on: 14 September 2001 by Nigel Cavendish
I always wear two pairs as well.

cheers

Nigel

Posted on: 14 September 2001 by Mike Hanson
quote:
It's the KPS-25SC. Yes, it has a perspex lid. No it does not sound boring. Were you trying to play a DVD on it?

I just checked the Krell site, and yes that was the player I heard. It was through some of Krell's big monoblocks, into Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers. It was precise and powerful, but it did not move me emotionally. There was almost no sense of rhythm and motion. It was icy, cool, detached and DULL -- the exact opposite from what I expect from a stereo.

When I commented on this, the proprietor of the shop blamed my CD selection, and gave me some bullsh*t line about how Krell was best with live recordings. (BTW, one of my CDs was a live recording.) I just smiled, nodded my head, and said goodbye.

If that's the best Krell has to offer, it's no wonder that I've got Naim gear.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-