The Krell KSA-100 MK1 does not use sustained plateau bias, it’s a pure class A monster that’ll draw several hundred watts from the wall all day.
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The Krell KSA-100 MK1 does not use sustained plateau bias, it’s a pure class A monster that’ll draw several hundred watts from the wall all day.
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Nonsense.Originally Posted by Macca
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I have a few of these door stops in the lab, in their day they were different, never saw what all the fuss was over unless you had Apogee's and need to power a dead short lol
Unless you know the history of the unit then I would leave alone, also remember these things would use around around .5kw of power at idle.
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Great input - as ever.
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If you have a pure class A amp, it's best not to leave it on all day.
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just remember our ethos folks
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Glad I didn't ask on here before I got mine. I fancied it so I just bought it.
Seems to be some quite bizarre prejudices against Krell/ American muscle amps. Legacy of the UK flat earth brainwashing maybe? An amplifier should be able to deliver watts and current, if it can't it isn't actually very good. Of course it is expensive to make an amp like that, it eats into the profits, so instead let's tell everyone that there is something magical about low powered amps with saggy power supplies.
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a good analogy would be using a stretch limmo for the school rungreat amps but better used with speakers that need it. again imo.
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
Jeez don't give the Yummy Mummies round here ideas. It's bad enough with wall to wall XC90s, X5s and the like.a good analogy would be using a stretch limmo for the school run
I'll be honest,
The reaction to the Krell question has surprised me somewhat.
Whether one Needs all that power really doesn't matter because most of us really dont. The only question I suppose is, does it sound as good when you aren't using it to its full potential. Being Class A, I don't see what reason there could be for it not to.
I can see why a low powered amp may not be ideal with inefficient speakers but for what reason would a high powered amp struggle to sound good through efficient speakers?
Apart from the quite frankly child-like remarks at times, the only comment of real value has been the effect heat can have on the life span of components.
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