I have always been fascinated by the combination of Krell KSA & The Apogee Scintilla and in the late 1980s and into the 1990s this was a combination I wanted to own.
Things have moved on but am sure that in fine fettle would still be a worthy combination.
My question relates to Krell amps only and have wondered which generation of Krell power amplifiers is the most load tolerant and capable of driving a one ohm load?
My guess would be in the original fan cooled KSA & KMA series all up to the newer fin cooled KSA 250.
in the mono series up to KMA 400 & MDA 500
Reference series in particular the KRS 100 and 200 probably the most load tolerant of all the Krell amps? Loved the KRS-200 driving Divas as I heard at the 1987 Penta show,
later on the Krell KAS possibly the 2 and latterly the big EVOLUTION ONE ? maybe some of the other EVO models?
I think even my little S550i could be capable? Ken Kessler made mention of this in one if his reviews, the lab report indicated it is a powerhouse.
Investigating later models I am not so sure that the FBP series could do it, may be the 402e could, but not the others in that later Evo series, excepting the EVOLUTION ONE ?
Simon
Things have moved on but am sure that in fine fettle would still be a worthy combination.
My question relates to Krell amps only and have wondered which generation of Krell power amplifiers is the most load tolerant and capable of driving a one ohm load?
My guess would be in the original fan cooled KSA & KMA series all up to the newer fin cooled KSA 250.
in the mono series up to KMA 400 & MDA 500
Reference series in particular the KRS 100 and 200 probably the most load tolerant of all the Krell amps? Loved the KRS-200 driving Divas as I heard at the 1987 Penta show,
later on the Krell KAS possibly the 2 and latterly the big EVOLUTION ONE ? maybe some of the other EVO models?
I think even my little S550i could be capable? Ken Kessler made mention of this in one if his reviews, the lab report indicated it is a powerhouse.
Investigating later models I am not so sure that the FBP series could do it, may be the 402e could, but not the others in that later Evo series, excepting the EVOLUTION ONE ?
Simon