This video covers my restoration of a beautiful, but butchered Krell KSA-150 class-A power amplifier. In this old photo story (my apologies for the dire production quality, yellow text, etc), I document my restoration of this wonderful amplifier.
I purchased this KSA-150 from an unethical Hi-Fi dealer in Melbourne, called Trevor Lees Audio, also trading as ChristophersAudiophileStore on eBay. Mr Lees misrepresented the condition and history of this amplifier both in writing and verbally, saying that no repair work had ever been carried out and that he sold the amp new.
Unfortunately, when I received the amplifier, I discovered that none of this was true along with a horribly executed repair job. Why not just send it back..? Because I was up for the postage BOTH WAYS - nearly $1000, all for the privilege of being lied to. No thanks to PayPal or greasy T and I like to call Mr Lees!
Long story short, I specialise in this sort of thing so I thought stuff it, I'll fix it myself, properly, and just wear the cost. Mr Lees feels hard done by, but never for a moment considered what I had to go through here. Why? Because he doesn't care!
Lees' technician was a little more ethical. He was so embarrassed by his work and that the amp was allowed to be sold in that condition that he called me and apologised, unreservedly, going directly against his employer in the process. That's gutsy. He explained that he had been forced to use the lowest quality parts and execute the cheapest possible repair.
NOTE: Trevor is trying to re-write history by now claiming a completely different story and even trying to say he never sold this KSA-150 to me when I still have the documentation! You can't make this stuff up.
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