Flav, My unit is under warranty and they are still charging a nice $$$ for the upgrade to recover costs on the expensive upgrade. |
Is Krell offering upgrades to Owners with Units still covered under Warranty? My MKII Standard is less than 6-months old, works and sounds perfect, but if the MKIII sounds better, than I'm interested in upgrading. I also had the MKI, and found the MKII to sound noticably better, and a nice upgrade. |
I only kept the unit for a few days. The noise is not excessive. The several seconds high noise, characteristic at startup of former units is now completely gone, and normal mechanism noise propagates mainly in the upper direction through the ventilation slots - it is not noticeable in normal use.
The sound quality is much improved. |
What´s your opinion after ten days, Microstrip? Please, report your impressions. Thanks.
In two weeks I´ll get mine. |
Have you paid attention if the unit makes excessive noise? It is most noticeable when the music stops or when the music transitions from loud to very soft. My Krell Sacd MKII almost growls for severeal second and then the mechanism noise is audible all the time. |
The SACD MKIII transport is less noisier than the previous versions but is not completely silent - you can year some mechanism noise through the upper cooling slits, but can not be heard when you are 1 meter away from the unit.
Sealed units such as the ARC CD7 and the Nagra CDP are noiseless. |
Hello Pauliez3, congratulation.
I can´t wait to get mine!!!!
What´s your opinion about the transport? |
You guys are killing me. I cant wait to get mine! |
I have the Krell SACD MkIII player. I upgraded from the first version of the player. What a diffeence! It took a while for the unit to break-in. It has better highs and lows. More detail. It's a new world. |
I have a new Krell SACD MKIII on order because I have had many problems with Krell SACD MKII mechanic transport and my dealer advised me to replaced it, but...
MkI and MkII drives were very noisy and truly disturbing when you were listening classical music or solo piano music.
Is the new transport mechanic reliable? |
After 18 hours warm-up we listened to both Krell SACD units.
The same cables were used for both players and speakers were LAT1000.
Immediately after swapping the players we got the idea that the mk3 was more detailed and seemed to sound better defined, but also louder. However, checking levels with track 18 of the Sheffield Test and Demonstration disk has shown that levels were similar within 0.1 dB.
Listening to the infamous Jazz at the Pawnshop SACD, track one, confirmed the differences. Ambient was better defined and image floated with a better sense of space with the SACD mk3. Bass had more punch. Something very nice was that applauses seemed to come from the individual tables, not from the whole stage.
The display can be defeated and intensity can be switched among there levels and the remote is the same as the one from the SACD mkI with a small facelift. |
Please,report if the display can be defeated and how the remote looks like.Thank You. |
Gendut3, The final version of MK III was released Jan 08. |
Look forward to the comparisons. |
I thought it's already in MK VIII. |
Just got a SACD MKIII from our Krell dealer to listen for the weekend.
The display is now white characters over blue background and can be easily read 3m away. Mechanical noise is lower than the mkI version. I have both units side by side and will compare them. |
It uses the rom drive from the Evo 505 CDP. It is said to be trouble free. |
The new unit retails for $6,000. Krell said the entire inside is re-designed from the version 2 and NO transport bugs this time. |
Any info on what has been changed or upgraded on this model? Have they finally worked out the transport bugs? What kind of price? |
Nope! But I have one on order. I will get it in a month or so... Cant wait!!! I'm waiting to hear the details from Krell themselves... |
