Musical Fidelity Phonostages - WAV file samples

jdjohn
jdjohn Posts: 2,987
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)
"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

Comments