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Originally Posted by ct335d /forum/post/17436492
That's an ignorant thing to say.
I recommend you get yourself educated about this product before you call people who did that "ignorant". I suggest you go to Krell's website and see if you can find the name of the video processor that they are using. I spent hours trying that and with no luck. In other words this information is not shared with customers. Can you guess why?
This is from page 11 of this product's user manual (I added the bolding):
"Configure video output sets the analog video scaler to an appropriate video output resolution.
Analog video can be up-scaled up to 1080P 60Hz allowing video parity for all video sources Once this has been set all analog video sources will be up-scaled and output to this resolution.
HDMI inputs are NOT affected by this setting."
Yes you read it right. For $30,000, you only get analog scaling. This product doesn't scale HDMI.
More. From their own brochure:
"The Evolution 707 video circuitry is fully HDMI 1.3 compliant, supports 24 bit Deep Color content, and is equipped with
an onboard video scaler. With stunning clarity,
this scaler up-converts incoming
analog video signals to a maximum of 1080p/60Hz over HDMI output or 1080p/30Hz via component video output. A second video zone enables viewing of another video source simultaneously."
They refer to an "onboard scaler" without telling us which. Why not? Denon has Realta and Anthem has Gennum (I think) and Krell has "
an onboard scaler".
Then they again say that this "an onboard scaler" only upconverts
analog sources.
In all likelyhood this onboard scaler sounds like a low-end "Faroudja" to me. Do I know definitively? No, but that is thanks to Krell for not telling us. This shady behavior in itself is enough not to entertain this product in my opinion. I would recommend OP to get last year's Onkyo 606 with the same chip for $600 and will offer similar video performance.
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Originally Posted by ct335d /forum/post/17436492
I'd stay away from your recommendations, to be honest.
Your loss. You would learn few things if you didn't.
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Originally Posted by ct335d /forum/post/17436492
You should have actual experience with a unit to make any comments about it.
And you do? It is obvious from your post that you know nothing about video processing capabilities of this product. Yet you still post in an insulting manner. You know what? More expensive is not always better.
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Originally Posted by ct335d /forum/post/17436492
Have you had a chance to listen to the Krell Evolution 707?
Uh, "listen"?? OP was asking about video processing side of this product and not sound. This is getting better by the minute.
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Originally Posted by ct335d /forum/post/17436492
If not, please don't spread any negative propaganda.
I suggest you really don't post about topics that you obviously lack knowledge. How would you feel if OP went ahead and bought this unit for its video processing features based on your input and later on learned that his $30K unit is only as good as $600 Onkyo?