Krell DVD player standard Krell DVD Standard Start Price USD 2,589.00 Current Price USD 2,589.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 22, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Location Msida, default See more about 'Krell DVD player standard' Description Inside The Krell DVD Standard is the first high-end player I’ve used that includes Faroudja Laboratories’ latest chipset. While the Faroudja DCDi chipset can be found in some players hovering closer to that $500 price tag mentioned by the berry brigade, any chip designer will tell you that, in any circuit topology, the supporting engineering is just as important. In this case, Krell has lavished their normal degree of care on designing the power regulation, which, they claim, results in visible picture stability. Unlike most recent players, which use 10-bit video-processing circuitry, the DVD Standard uses 11- bit video processing, a fact certain not to be lost on the Spinal Tap crowd. The Standard combines two Faroudja technologies: FLI 2200 line doubling and FLI 2220 enhancement. The enhancement circuit works through either the player’s progressive or interlaced outputs. The Standard is blessed with a prodigious array of video options, divided into two banks. The interlaced bank contains a composite, an S-video, and standard component (Y-Pr-Pb via RCAs) outputs. The very complete and flexible progressive bank offers component outputs (RCA), and RGB outputs using five BNC connectors.(RGB connectors require not just Red, Green, and Blue leads, but also horizontaland vertical sync signals, although internally, the Krell can be configured to pass synchronization over the green signal to accommodate some older projectors.) A small switch lets you select between the progressive component and progressive RGB outputs, so obviously only one progressive mode can be active at a time, but all the interlaced outputs are active at any time. With all these video options, you could easily use the Standard to drive multiple 16:9 displays in your home theater—say, a CRT projector for the serious stuff, and plasma because, well, just because. Finally, a computer-style DB-15 output connection let me connect the Krell’s progressive RGB plus sync video signal through the RGB pass-through input on my Dwin TranScanner video processor. This allowed me to easily switch between driving my Dwin HDP-500 projector directly from the Krell in progressive mode or from the Krell’s interlaced output using the TranScanner as the active scaler. The DVD Standard offers the usual digital audio outputs (one coaxial, one optical), as well as two channel-balanced (XLR) and single-ended (RCA) connections fed by the player’s Burr-Brown 24-bit/192kHz DACs. For my 2-channel listening, I used the DVD Standard’s DACs and fed the signal through the processor in what’s called Preamp mode, an analog-direct version that never digitizes the signal. Everything I saw convinced me that the Krell’s progressive circuitry was rock-steady, and as sharp and detailed as any I’ve seen. Report Card My daughter Laura is taking a summer course in Micro-Economics. One of her professor’s study questions dealt with the price elasticity of DVD players, and although it humorously referred to “improvements in vision technology” in forecasting hi-def blue-laser DVDs, his point was clear: There’s something else coming down the road. There always is. So do you drop $8000 on a state-of-theart DVD player just as they’re about to blow the roof off the technology with a new Blue Light (literally) special? Why not? If you have hundreds or thousands of standard-definition DVDs, why wouldn’t you want to see and hear them forever in the best light possible? New technology and some future medium may be better, but there aren’t that many “White Albums” out there that you’ll feel compelled to repurchase. Not when the player in question, the Krell DVD Standard, is so darn good. When I play this “White Album” backwards, all I keep hearing is, “Paul isn’t dead, he’s touring; tickets are expensive, but then, the best usually are!” Bottom line: If you’re using a high-quality projection and sound system, the Standard will give you a home-theater experience that is enjoyable and highly addictive. Stereophile Guide to Home Theater • November 2002   ore info on http://www.krellonline.com/archive_pdfs/DVD_Standard/0149_029_MAN.pdfOn Jul-22-08 at 03:06:55 PDT, seller added the following information:Please note that a salex tax of 18% is to be added for EU customers only unless you are VAT registered. Place a Bid!