Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista Owners Questions???

Ask anyone who works at Stereophile I am sure they would know :-p

My Tri-Vista SACD sounded great right out of the box. I think the sound may have improved slightly after the first 100 hours or so. The extremely long break-in and warm-up periods described in the Stereophile review are quite inaccurate in my experience.

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.