Author Archives: Jim Lee

Krell’s New Integrated Amplifier

Krell Integrated Amp

Krell’s New Integrated Amplifier has just arrived!

Krell is finally shipping, in limited quantities, their second batch of this beautiful piece of Audio jewelry – the S550i, available for $5000.

This is truly a music lover’s product with more than enough juice to control any speaker system on the planet.

We started warming up our display unit in our showroom yesterday and already can tell it performs well above it’s price range. Huge sound stage presentation, lots of detail and control as we have come expect from Krell. It boasts 275 watts per channel into 8 ohms and a whopping 550 into 4 ohms. It weighs 64 pounds but don’t worry, we can help you with the installation. For those of you considering a serious musical upgrade but may not have the real estate for separates, come in and have a listen for yourself.

Here is a link to a recent review (PDF) from reviewer Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News and Record Review.

Local Musician Zach Fleury

Zach Fleury

Zach Fleury is a local musician / artist. His mother has been a customer of ours for years.

I want to highly recommend this CD recording for it’s well-structured, original music content and exceptionally beautiful mastering. I’ve been using it in our demo room for a couple of weeks now. It is one of those recordings that seems to continually get better the more you listen.

We have a few copies for sale here at our showroom.

Stop in and give Zach a listen.

A Fantastic Installation – Focal – JL Audio – Sooloos – Cambridge – Krell

Here are a few photos of another project we did this week:

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This room sounds pretty darn wonderful to say the least. We installed a new pair of Focal 1028be speakers along with a JL Audio Fathom 113 sub woofer. The Sooloos music server feeds a Cambridge Audio DAC Magic and then out to a Krell integrated amplifier.

We also installed two pair of our Niles outdoor speakers for his decks and installed a tasty JL Audio, Integra, and Focal home theater system upstairs.

Many thanks to our new customer Brent for allowing us to tune up his new digs! You are a fun guy to work with.
Cheers!

Here are before and after shots of one of the installations we did this week.

What a difference a day can make…

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After: after
All the audio video electronics are neatly tucked away in a hall closet. We also installed a nice pair of Niles outdoor speakers on their patio. Everything is simply controlled with a URC custom programmed remote.