Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista Owners Questions???

It takes a few days of being left on to break in. The tonal balance of the Tri-Vista is different than the Nu-Vista. The Nu-Vista is darker at the top. More air with Tri-Vista. Not a good or bad thing...just a characteristic.

If you have Martin Logans or another speaker that needs "air" at the very tip-top get the Tri-Vista.

Both products will amaze you.

On the comment made above about Stereophile knowing about MF gear...they are not alone. TAS had a column talking about price/value and at one extreme spoke of Lamm as being expensive for what you get in parts count, and used Musical Fidelity as THE example of big value for the money.

In solid state I know of now other company that gives you more parts count, refined finish, and better sound for the dollar.

I'd still ask anyone at Stereophile about ANY product of Musical Fidelity, since they seem to review every product they market and with great regularity. BTW, when you come out with 'limited editions', all bets are off. That way, you can debut a 'new' product that 'needs' reviewing and do it every few months while buying really expensive advertising. Hats off to Anthony Michaelson. Who said clarinet players are dumb?

I'm sure Kevin Deal means well. I've always had good success with Upsaleaudio. It's nice that he's a dealer for Musical Fidelity.

The Tri-Vista sacd player sounds better than anything I owned. This is with less than 100 hours of use.

I own the Tri-Vista and I could tell the unit was going to be a keeper right out of the box. It did sound a little hard in the High Frequencies. It gradually went away over a period of two weeks. The midrange will also flesh out over about a month. Great SACD Player. It smokes a stock SCD-1, but it should.

hope this helps,

Johnny

When you said the midrange fleshed out after about a month, did you leave your player running all the time for a month or was it on and off intermitantly? thanks