Bryston 28bsst2 worthy upgrade from a krell fpb70?

Hi dasign

May i know your reason why you want to move on from your krell 350mcx? I am actually satisfied with my krells but am wondering if the brystons or the new classe to be better than the older 10 year old designs from krell?

Hoping for advise from the experts who have heard these amplifiers

I share the same reasons for changing amps as you are dasign, looked at the internals of both bryston and classe, and both doesnt have the sophistcated internals compared to the older krells, wondering if simpler circuit is much better, but look at the krell transformer size, really really huge as compared to the newer brystons and classe.

Hope someone can shed some light...

Guys i am not from the US, im from a jungle in asia, hahaha, so modding my krell would be close to impossible, i do know the older service tech doing repairs here for krell in our country, i am not sure how many caps needs to be replaced for full recapping though, and the approx cost of the parts and the amount of labor to be done.

Before i have owned bryston 4bsst2 driving mg 1.7, when i bought the used fpb700 and compared it with the 4bsst2, the krell was a lot better then, warmer, relaxed and more musical, but was thinking this is the smaller brystons and thought maybe the 28bsst2 would be a lot better than the 4Bsst2.

If i can find a jeff rowland 8tihc here in our country i would also be interested, i do know the dealer have sold i think 3 units here back in the 90's, maybe i should hunt the owners down and make an offer? Thought the rowlands might also mate well witht he jadis pre...

My only concern with my krell fpb700 is its reliability in the coming years since it is nearing 10 years already, but if the consensus is that if the 700 cx is better than the 28bsst2, then i would gladly live with the krell forever and cross my fingers it will not break down in the next 5 years at least,

Its nice if i could just comoare both side by side. But im quite happy with the krell amp paired with a jadis jps2 pre amp...

Stringreen,

i feel the same way about my older bryston 4bsst2, compared to the krell fpb 700,  but iwas please with the overall sound of my other system consisting of bryston 4bsst2, cary slp-05 mated to a M&K S150mk2, but never like it that much as compared when the maggie 1.7 were connected

I have just revisited this thread and found a lot more interesting comments, for now i still live with my krell and bought another speaker used here in agon, the B&W 801D, another speaker that needs the power of the Krells. Now will just concentrate and channel the funds into remodelling and acoustic treatments in my room, hope the project improves my overall sound..

thanks to all they guys for the inputs, 

NOW i want a pair of Electrocompaniet Nemo monoblocks for my two dream speakers, the maggie 20.7 and the B&w 801d, so blessed to be able to acquire these two wonderful speakers