Krell and CJ?

Funny you ask because a friend has a CJ PV10 and got a great deal on a Krell KSA200 and paired them up for a while. It sounded pretty good but not nearly as good as with his usual Classe CA300 so he sold the Krell. The soundstage seemed constricted and the mids were recessed. This was on Vandersteen 2ce, Cardas cables, Sony ES. I have MIT cables and like them very much when paired up with my McIntoshes.

Yes, XLR to RCA adapters were used in what I described. I can't understand why CJ won't go with XLR. Impedance mismatch may have been the problem in what I described above, in which case one of them would have had to go anyway.