![]() Ironically, one of the earliest to recognize Krell’s brilliance was John Atkinson, then the editor of Hi-Fi News & Record Review. And that was at a time when the Linn/Naim bloc ruled it with an iron fist. For the next decade or so, as far as the British market was concerned, Krell would own that region’s high-end solid-state market. However “unusual” Alex might have been, his observation was correct. One day, Alex’s story will be told, in the same tome that will include the tales of John Iverson, Ira Gale, Jim Bongiorno and other world-class audio eccentrics, but that must wait. I was attending a minor hi-fi show in Kent, in Southern England, and one of high-end’s odder characters, a fellow US expat named Alex Raffio, came up to me and told me to prepare myself for hearing “the greatest amplifier in the world.” Among my many life-changing “firsts” I recall-like the first time I had Beef Wellington (September 5, 1972) or received a copy of Meet The Beatles (March 10, 1964)-I will never forget the first time I heard the name “Krell” in a manner unconnected to the film Forbidden Planet. ![]()
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