New Musical Fidelity M8 pre - anyone heard this

I recently acquired a Musical Fidelity M8 Pre. I find it works well in the upper and lower regions of the music spectrum, I find that it sounds flat - IE no texture - in the midrange section, somewhere along the lines of the vocals area, as if there is a veil of some sort. I suspect that maybe this is a capacitor issue???? How do others feel about this preamp?

The bass and treble area do sound fantastic as I can hear this preamp hitting highs that I could not realize with my 30 year old preamp it replaced. Its not always apparent, but from time to time, I do notice it.

However, in order to achieve such a level of improvement, one needs to spend at least 3 times as much as my previous preamp costs (at that given time vs. the cost of this new preamp) - giving my 30 year old preamp props that it punches up in weight and can still kick a-- against anything that you would find in todays best buy stores.

 Any M8 preamp users still around / I have one on order and curious about it's longevity and also does the M8 need to on for HT bypass?

Really excited to hear it with my Parasound JC 5 amp.

Old post but I just bought a M8pre and I also

have a Parasound jc5.

How did you find the combo?

I feel the midrange sounds a bit flat

and boring. 

 

@grovkalle 

It took me awhile to get the sound I wanted out of the paring after they settled in.  It all came down to cableing between the two ,starting with Morrow Audio MA5 XlR's then to Wire World Eclipse 8 ( fleshed out the mids) and finally settling on the Silver Eclipse 8 XlR's and bingo! How many hours on the paring or MS8 pre ?