A friend of mine recently purchased an MP-3 to match with with MA-1 amps, and he says the combination is astoundingly good. I don't think he'd mind my quoting from his email to me, in which he said:
- "The combination of the ..., the Atma-Sphere MP-3 preamp, and the Atma-Sphere MA-1 MkII amps offers a degree of clarity and focus, neutrality, transparency, speed, resolution of detail, imaging, and dynamic range hitherto unknown to me. At the risk of lapsing into audiophile-review-speak, the delicacy of textures and timbres and overtones, the harmonic richness, is a wonder to behold."