Musical Fidelity Phonostages - WAV file samples
jdjohn
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This is not very scientific, but I've recorded the same track - Dire Straits, Love Over Gold - with two different Musical Fidelity phonostages. One is the MF Nu-Vista Vinyl, which retails for ~$3,000USD, and second is the MF MX-VNYL, which sells new for ~$800USD.
Here is a link to the MF Nu-Vista WAV file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1daVWNDE6BcHMN6U20wiJOEBD2TDdmwve/view
And this is the MX-VNYL sample:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGBo6uJa1Li7XaRJQfpc0aDP4JdMITB7/view
I'm not trying to drive direction one way or the other, but perhaps exhibit the difference in sound, and relate it to the difference in price.
I would recommend using headphones for discerning differences in sound between these two files.
P.S. Turntable, tonearm, and cartridge were as follows:
Logic DM-101 turntable
Micro Seiki MA-505 tonearm (and corresponding MS headshell)
Grace F9 MM cartridge (with SoundSmith RS-9U line-contact replacement stylus)
Here is a link to the MF Nu-Vista WAV file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1daVWNDE6BcHMN6U20wiJOEBD2TDdmwve/view
And this is the MX-VNYL sample:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGBo6uJa1Li7XaRJQfpc0aDP4JdMITB7/view
I'm not trying to drive direction one way or the other, but perhaps exhibit the difference in sound, and relate it to the difference in price.
I would recommend using headphones for discerning differences in sound between these two files.
P.S. Turntable, tonearm, and cartridge were as follows:
Logic DM-101 turntable
Micro Seiki MA-505 tonearm (and corresponding MS headshell)
Grace F9 MM cartridge (with SoundSmith RS-9U line-contact replacement stylus)
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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Access: requested.
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Access requested George / NJ
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Ok, let's try this again with shared links:
MX-VNYL https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zGBo6uJa1Li7XaRJQfpc0aDP4JdMITB7/view?usp=sharing
Nu-Vista Vinyl https://drive.google.com/file/d/1daVWNDE6BcHMN6U20wiJOEBD2TDdmwve/view?usp=sharing"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
that appears to have worked
Not to go all ASR on this
but it might have been fun and interesting for you to have "blinded" the two links and let folks experience the two samples (blissfully) unaware of which was which.
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I thought about doing that @mhardy6647 , but decided against it since it is only two files. However, I noticed that the original MX-VNYL file had about 0.5db more gain, so I bumped the Nu-Vista up to match it. Also, I clipped a little time off the ends so that the files are the same length.
Anyway, here are new files for both:
MX-VNYL(2) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T4qnhUSB4zxbpIS-AXbgxFxKM4n-3vut/view?usp=sharing
Nu-Vista(2) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sYEFhKkIukyNL3chLCDeFcbL-BlK2w4w/view?usp=sharing
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon -
Using my phone speaker, the nu Vista sounds better- Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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Well, just cuz...here is another sample file through an 'Italian-job" Royal Device Rubina JFET MM-only phonostage: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fJYXgVjwTKF_XIo36mxq8i89jvqF7rec/view?usp=sharing
Interested to see if anyone has a strong opinion about this result."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
