Musical FidelityWhich Integrated is best value?

I have the Trivista and love it. Great deatil, liquid sound. The phono is just ok if you have moving coil -- compared to the Hovland 100 preamp which has amazing phono.

I owned a Nu-vista for about 4 years and enjoyed it tremendously.Unburstable power and a decent enough phonostage if you look at it as free (converts by a couple of internal dipswitches to mc by the way).
It also has the benefit against the Tri-vista that you can replace the valves yourself - no small thing given the wieght & size of the units.
It came very close to my current Supratek/Pass labs set up and cost way less money.
The Nu-vista benefited greatly from good cables, a Synergistic Active power cord being the best (imo)of the many power cords I tried on it.

I've had a Plinius 9200 for several years now. It replaced a $10K ARC/Levinson combo and smoked it! Can't comment on the comparison you asked about, but I noted that the phono on the Plinius was a tad noisy, so I inserted a Sutherland PhD. Not only is the PhD dead quiet, to much better harmonics, detail, etc. The improvement blew me away. Controlling noise inducement in the preamp of an integrated has got to be difficult and even more so for the phono stage...

I agree with Washline and Simon74... I owned the Nu-vista for few years and love it. Have it compare to many diff. int.amp like JRDG, Gryphon and ML383... Still like it better. I am now have the Trivista. The Nu-vista is lettle sweeter in the mid and a little rolled off at the high and the Trivista has all the controls for the bass and the high is extended. It was little bright when I match the Trivista with the Watt&Puppy but the Nu-vista was very good. They both worth the money, and you just have match it with the rest of your system. Sysnergy is still the key.

I haven't tried too much MFs but for me the X-150 does it pretty well for the money. Trivista & Nu-Vista are a superior category but I'm not sure if the upgrade in prices goes by the hand with upgrades in sound.