Yeah that’s what I like about my Elevator for my MC carts I can adjust on the fly but the main reason I’m leaning towards the MF is it can accept more than 1 table so would be great to connect both my tables to one phono stage.
Audiofreak71
Musical Fidelity Owners Thread
Audiofreak71
Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
A 40-year old MF piece, part of the reason the rest of these products exist. The Musical Fidelity AC-1:
S/N: 141 Shown with loading resistors on the input end.
S/N: 189 recapped, no loading resistors.
Specs from 10-82 Audio magazine from worldradiohistory.com.
S/N: 141 Shown with loading resistors on the input end.
S/N: 189 recapped, no loading resistors.
Specs from 10-82 Audio magazine from worldradiohistory.com.
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cabby
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What is the difference between A3.2 vs A3?
dogwan
Dogwan
mikeybc
Listener
For the integrated amp I believe it's just a slight power bump from 85 to 115 watts per channel and cosmetics, ie. larger volume knob and the gold volume knob and bottom trim was switched to silver
I think the A3.2 and A308 series were the last to be made in England.
cabby
Well-Known Member
good info. thank you!
WiredNinja
New Member
Does anyone have a Musical Fidelity a308cr power amp for sale? Does not matter if it is the 120v or 240v version, please message me! Cheers!
cabby
Well-Known Member
Don't see this stack everyday. Very nice! Bet that combo weighs a ton. I think my A308 int is ~45lbs.
ChrisCables
Active Member
Had this cool little stack for about 5 years. Recapped it, sounded better, then offloaded it to make way for some Audio-GD DAC/Amp superiority.
This has been my set-up for many years: X-LP2 [incl. X-PSU], X-A1 amp and X-A50 power amps, all using X-LINKS cabling post-phono stage.
I also have another set of X-A50's, an X-CANS, an X-TONE, X-10D and X-PRE, some here in this pic while I was messing/testing/my wife wasn't home:
I'm in the middle of re-setting/upgrading/fettling everything, and will be experimenting by feeding the phono stage through a dual mono attenuator and straight into the 'quad'/bi power amps, no particular point but I'm 90% dual mono so will go the whole hog for S and G's...
[ETA, as this is the British Audio sub, I'll give a shout out to the Michell Gyrodec MkI and Gyropower QC along with the Rega Apheta 2 MC and Ruark Prologue speakers - we'll not mention the Ortofon SUT or Well Tempered Arm, tsk tsk!]
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It's been nearly forty years since my first MF item, a B200 integrated amp bought ~1987, back when they were sold in Canada as "British Fidelity." Next came an X-Can V3, which is still in use, and my admiration for it led me to pick up a NuVista Vinyl in 2022. For one reason or another, mainly related to moving house, I have only recently started using it seriously, and it really has changed the way I think of my cartridges. I have two SME 10 tables, adapted to hold two arms each, so four of the five inputs are in use. Most expensively, it makes my SS Sussurro sound (dare I say it) better than my London Decca Reference, which has led to me ordering a Hyperion. When it arrives I shall have to decide whether it will replace the Sussurro or the Reference.
Just got a Musical Fidelity NuVista Vinyl phono stage, it’s exceptional sounding. Looks like the Graham Slee phono stage and SUT will be up for sale.
One piece of advice about the NuVista Vinyl: never plug in or unplug any of the inputs with it switched on. I did and ended up with four inputs not working. That was part of the reason why I had it such a long time before using it. Deciding it was time to send it off for repair, I tried it and it worked again! A prolonged period of being off must have allowed some charge on the input board to dissipate. I'm a bit paranoid about that now, but since things are set up I hope there will be no need for swapping connections now.