Krell KAV-250p - time for change?

Krell makes some great equipment. If there is something you don't particularly like, there are many newer preamps that may satisfy you, depending on how much you want to spend. My guess is that you're going to spend at least 2 times the price of your Krell to get a preamp that is sonically as good. You may want to consider a tube preamp, but not my first choice. Happy listening.

You knowledgeable folk continue to confirm the Krell is a good unit sonically. Hard to replace it just because I don’t like the volume UI. 

Dump it asap!

I would love to own some big Magico speakers, but at $150k + a pair, just not happening for me.

@ebm Sounds like you are not a Krell fan? Any suggestions I can look into?

@olfac87

Keep the Krell as long as you love the way it sounds! And don’t pay any attention to what ebm says, his contributions to Audiogon community can be summed up between ‘jump’ and ‘dump’ ….he reminds me of my garbage man who jump on and on off his garbage truck to dump garbage 😂

@lalitk Thanks for the insider baseball. And no one is giving me a good reason to give up the Krell. :-) I guess that was good advice all those years ago when I bought it. I think this thread has convinced me to keep the Krell and continue to put energy into other avenues, such as room treatments or making a subwoofer decision (my other recent post on Audiogon).

@olfac87

I would prioritize room treatments before you spend a dime on anything else. GIK acoustics is a great resource to research and seek advise. They are great to work with and provides customize room solutions.

@lalitk Ha! That’s exactly what a responder said on my sub thread. I reached out to GIK yesterday with their cool online tool. 

Pass 350.8 .

Interesting post.  The one thing I don't love about my Luxman is this same idea....1) specifically that there are BIG jumps when you use the remote and 2) I have no visual indicator on the volume knob where i'm at when seated and lights are dimmed.  I think something like the Anthem with big numerical volume indicators would help me as I get older, LOL.  

Krell is good gear for sure, so it would have to REALLY bother me to move on from it.  

You knowledgeable people are killing me! Oh, wait, that’s why I posted in the first place. I will leave the Krell alone. For now. :-)

Krell K 300 I a whole new ball game