Krell K-300i Integrated Amplifier

The first time I heard the name Krell was in the 1956 sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet that was a remake of Shakespeare’s The Tempest but set on a world far, far away. Glorious colour and Theremin-fuelled range of sound effects, groundbreaking at the time, leant an atmosphere of shimmering scientific achievement. The extinct Krell were so technologically advanced that they had driven themselves to extinction, leaving behind their accumulated knowledge in the shape of great glistening machines of unimaginable power. Fast forward to the early ’80s and the name Krell makes a re-appearance on British shores as an American audio …