Has anyone heard FM Acoustics


I have been told by a couple of Audiophiles that the FM Acoustics amplifiers were incredibly good and very expensive. Has anyone had hand-on experiences with these amplifiers? The amp I have heard of most is the Resolution 811. Would this venerable amp still approach the state of the art for solid state?
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Bvdiman, Wow! you are very fortunate to be able to get to hear all of these set-ups. They sure do vary, are they in close proximity of one another. I find it be very educational hearing others systems, helps assisting in what I do and don't want.

I was recently over at someones place and heard a set-up that was so detailed that it fatigued me within a very short period, this is not the type of system I would personally want to live with.

I read all the info. on FMC site including owners thoughts, very interesting indeed.

Looking at this list there is a variety of different sounds, can you briefly describe the sound and what FM product did they have connected. What was your favourite and down and why.

You are currently using Magico Mini II's correct?

What size of room do you have them set-up in.

Thanks for the info. to date.
Mr. Bvidiman, how often do you change the tone linearizer controls on your 268 pre amp? Are adjustments on the remote control? Do you change the controls for every CD? Do set and forget?
Wadav,
It's remote have only volume up-down, mute and linearizer in/out functions, so a total of four buttons only. Thus frequency adjustments are not remote controllable.

Average to well recorded CDs do not need them, unless for very critical listening where minute changes of frequency shifts are desired or when compiling your own recordings. I switched them in mostly only for correcting popular recordings and/or some vintage ones--ella, louis, miles etc where recordings are usually poor--teeny, flat and shrill. It does a really great job of correcting and injecting lives into those ones! I have few favorite settings which I used for treatment of differing deficiencies.. Practically it's very simple to use, almost the set and forget type once u get used to those few routines.

And icing on the cake is--even when set 'flat' with linearizer function out of the circuit, it's still a damn fine pre-amp. Imo, at least twice better than their own widely acclaimed FM266mkII in all respect (I had them for 6 mths prior to 268), which is by itself a long time benchmark and no slouch either.
Bvdiman, greeting here from another Tidalist . I went to audition FMA today in a dealer near me. Pre : 255, Phono: 222, Amp: 801A and 611. Speaker : JBL 66000. All FMA cables and wires.

Admitly, FMA is very special product sonically, every aspect of sound reachs certain level, (pretty high end), the combination make special charm to listener.

Yet I was totally surprised the difference between 801A and 611, and more surprisingly, I prefer 801A to more modern 611. Bvdiman, have you heard 801A?