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Musical Fidelity have recently unveiled the latest addition to the Nu-Vista line up, the Nu-Vista 600 Amplifier.
Retailing for £4999 the new NuVista 600 combines technology from several different eras of electronics design.
a) Nuvistor technology
b) Semi conductor technology
c) Surface Mount Design technology
d) CAD/CAM PCB design
e) Software control
The Nu Vista 600 combines nuvistor technology with Surface Mount Design and CAD/CAM PCB concepts. Essentially the NuVista 600 is the same as its older brother, NuVista 800, but with less elaborate metalwork and only 200WPC. Like the 800 the Nu Vista 600 has extraordinary technical and sonic performance.
The NuVista 600 integrated offers full-on, high-end performance, in a beautiful, relatively compact package, and gives a comfortable 200 watts per channel.
The NuVista 600s front end is positioned on the same PCB as the input circuitry. This keeps all PCB tracks as short as possible, and ensures that this highly sensitive function is at right angles to any stray hysteresis field from the transformers, ensuring superlative sonic performance.
The nuvista stage itself combines nuvista tubes with Musical Fidelitys exclusive Surface Mount Design and technology systems. This allows them to perform at a level never seen before.
The power amp stage is derived from the monster Titan amp, regarded by many as one of the best amplifiers ever made. However, subtle improvements to the circuit have been made, squeezing even more performance from what was already a legendary circuit design.
The overall configuration is dual mono, with a separate 1 kW super silent drive mains transformer per channel.
The result? Maximum performance from every part of the circuit which clearly shows just how much of a labour of love and passion for the NuVista 600 was for us.
Technical performance
The NuVista 600 delivers a comfortable 200 wpc. It is capable of large current swings: about 150 Amps peak to peak. Distortion at 1kHz is vanishingly low at 0.002%. At 10 kHz, it is about 0.004% and at 20 kHZ 0.006%. These are extraordinary figures.
NuVista 600 has very low noise and excellent stereo separation. Because of its peak current capability, it can drive any speaker with any cable, without breaking a sweat.
The Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600 combines the beauty, delicacy and poise of state of the art tube and semiconductor design blended with massive power and current.
Sound quality
The NuVista 600 delivers everything that its concepts promise. On the one hand, you have the beauty and warmth of nuvistor tubes. However, because of their superlative technical performance, there is no colouration or excessive warmth.
On the other hand, there is a huge power amp with massive reserves of power and current that has the delicacy and speed of attack (and decay) of a small triode power amp but, just you wait for that transient: it is delivered effortlessly with no colouration or limits.
The NuVista 600 sound quality is, to us at least, totally satisfying.
Beautiful, deep and wide sound staging, effortless transients, incredible bottom end extension, speed, rhythm and then the exquisite mid range.
Metalwork and finish
The Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600 Amplifier is finished to a very high standard. The front panel is machined from solid, mil-spec aluminium and surfaced to an exacting standard. The custom made heatsink extrusions are purely functional and well finished.
For more information about the Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 600 call us on 01482 223096 or email [email protected]
Trade In
Of course at Fanthorpes we love to trade in, so if you want to trade in your existing HiFi against Musical Fidelity NuVista 600, contact us and we will let you know what it is worth as a trade in.
Finance Available
We can also offer buy now pay later on the whole NuVista range allowing you to spread or defer your payments over a year.
