One quick look at the Nu-Vista Vinyl's wonderful visuals confirms MF feelings. MF set out to make a phono stage without any practical limits. Essentially, in real life, you cannot overload the input stage or find any practical limitations in the output driving capacity. Single ended or balanced. It has five inputs, each can be set for either MM/MC and exact loading. It will remember those settings.
The true point of any electronic, actually any audio component, is that you don't know it is there. You completely forget its existence.
By that criteria the Nu-Vista Vinyl is almost perfect. It has no practical audible noise, it doesn't really have distortion, you cannot overload its input or output, you can load your cartridge perfectly.
It exists to serve, serve the music. To bring the artists intent, emotions and passion to your ears and heart. Yeah, MF can talk about bass (deep, deep, deep), imaging (tactile, holographic), high frequency clarity with no sibilence....and on and on. Yeah, It does all those things.....but the big thing it does, the thing that matters ....is that it eases your soul by getting you to the heart of the music.
Features:
MM input:
Frequency response - RIAA or RIAA/IEC (selectable) ±0.2dB
Input sensitivity - 2.5mV in for 300mV out (at 1 kHz)
Input impedance - 47KΩ
Input capacitance - 50-400pF selectable
THD at 1 kHz - <:0.01%
Overload margin - 31dB
Signal to noise ratio - >90dB “A”-wtd
MC input:
Frequency response - RIAA or RIAA/IEC (selectable) ±0.2dB
Input sensitivity - 250μV in for 300mV out (at 1 kHz)
Input impedance - 10Ω to 47KΩ selectable
Input capacitance - 470pF fixed
THD at 1 kHz - <:0.01%
Overload margin - 31dB
Signal to noise ratio - >88dB “A”-wtd
Outputs (RCA/XLR):
1 pair RCA (phono) - left and right 300mV nom 10V max
1 pair XLR (balanced) - left and right 600mV nom 20V max
Power requirement
Mains voltages - 230V/115V Internally set or 100V optional. AC 50/60Hz
Consumption - 30 Watts maximum.
Musical Fidelity has been designing and manufacturing Hi-Fi electronics for over thirty years and has become one of the best-known brands in the Hi-Fi industry. Driven by a passion for wonderful music and the challenge of world-class engineering Musical Fidelity approached each new design by looking for the absolute best solution to a given challenge and embrace new technologies in their designs as well as developing more traditional methods for even greater performance.
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