Whats the krell sound?

Ruthless. Too ruthless for most.

My opinion like 913nut is edgy very harsh and edgy at the top. Not a natural sound at all.

The above responders call the Krells, harsh and edgy, bright tonally and cool in palate. Will a good tube preamp mellow out the above adjectives? Has anyone tried a Krell amp with a tube preamp?

mitch

i had an fpb-300 amp that
1. worked perfectly/looked great
2. threw a big 3d stage
3. sounded quite good, except that compared to a pass aleph amp, had a slight silvery top end, not unpleasant in any way, but wasn't as transparent as the pass. otoh, the pass amp had softer bass. also, the krell was $8k, the pass (1.2's)
were $14k. halcro's get out of the way even more, but lack "body", which i ultimately prefer.

Mitch

I use an Audioprism Mantissa tube pre with my Krell ksa-250. Wonderfull combo in my system.

Dave