Musical Fidelity?


I have been searching for an integrated amp to connect to my Marantz sr 5005 and have seen Musical Fidelity components for sell that are with in the my price rage. I know nothing about this company so I was wondering if I could get some real world opinions. The research I have done so far seems positive. All opinions welcome.
wmbode
I'm in the process of possibly getting a nu vista m3. If I can't get it for a steal of a price, I would give you the contact info and you could try to put together a deal on it. After my ridiculous offer, you might be able to get a good deal on it, as it would sound reasonable after my ludicrous one.
B limo

Thanks for the heads up on the nu vista m3. I saw your other posting and it seems the m3 had some mixed reviews. I better wait this one out for more opinions.

Thanks

Bill
Started loving Mu-Fi in the late 80's with an A100...Made 3 miles from my home in London.
Tried & loved the X-10d
I have an X-150,X-P200,X-Ray,X-DAC,V-Link,X-PSU,X-10v3 all playing thru Maggie MMGs or ProAc Tablettes with a Rogers sub.
Still have them all!
Great sound AND value for $$;I can afford to feed them !
Lol Clemis! I also have a musical fidelity v-dac ii with upgraded power supply (love it!) and just purchased a musical fidelity a3.2 cd player which I have also been enamored with for the past three days. If my deal goes through with the nu vista m3, my entire front end will be musical fidelity :-)
As other have stated already MF makes quite good amplifiers. I have own an A5 combo (CD player and integrated) for around 3 years and the amp was certainly a good amp. I would certainly recommend it. The nu-vista m3 integrated is much better than the A5 one. However, it is a much older model (m3 models are probably at least 10 old) so it may require service in the near future.

While I do not know how the situation is now, Antony Michaelson use to release new products (while discontinuing whole series) every other year, sometimes (much) sooner. Consequently, I would not advise anybody to pay full retail prices for MF products. Chances are that in 6-12 months the dealer will drop the price by 40% or so trying to get rig of the old model. Because of this the quality/price ration of MF 2nd hand products is very very hard to beat. For those 2nd hand prices, their name, i.e. MF, is their only weakness. IMO of course.