Item: Musical Fidelity TRI-VISTA 300 Integrated Amplifier
Location: Hurlstone Park, Sydney, NSW
Price: $2750
Item Condition: 8/10
Reason for selling: possible upgrade
Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal
Extra Info:
I am currently using this amplifier in my system and it is working perfectly. I have the remote control, manual and also the original industrial connectors for the power supply. Unfortunately I don’t have the original packaging. Please note that this unit does not have the phono module. There is some paint missing on the back edge of the amplifier casing (shown in the photos) which would be easy to touch up.
Musical Fidelity TRI-VISTA 300
Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300 dual mono integrated amplifier with power supply.
This amplifier was specially produced in limited series of 500 items, to mark the 40s anniversary of the brand. It is still considered to be the best integrated amplifier ever produced in the brand's history. It has a huge power - 350 watts per channel into 8 ohms or 600 watts per channel into 4 ohms. The amplifier is basically consists of two separate power mono amplifiers and a preamplifier for the left and right channel separately, all built into one case with the total weight of 30kg, and a power supply with separate outputs for the right and left mono power amplifiers and a preamplifier, built into another case of 16kg. The Tri-Vista uses a military valve in the input stage and a transistor in the output making it very musical. This also results in a massive but detailed sound stage.
There is a bit more information below from the Home Theatre review;
The outboard power supply is a beast at 14x6 1/4x9 5/8 in (WDH), and - as there's no remote power on - you'll need access to it for switch-on. As with the M3, it connects to the main unit via three cables for left-and-right power and a control cable. The 300's back panel contains industrial connectors for the power supply, a bank of phono connectors for five line sources, a damned quiet phono stage (plus earthing tag), tape in/out and pre-out, and two pairs of massive multi-way speaker binding posts to facilitate easy bi-wiring. Though the main chassis measures 19x6 1/4x16in (WHD), allow 20in depth for the fittings. Across the front, sexy in various shades of silver and titanium, are a mere three controls: rotaries for volume and source, and a press button to choose tape monitor. This is flanked by four blue lamps to tell you that the pre-amp and power stages are working properly.
Then there are the feet, which change colours from red at switch-on to orange-y amber when the circuits settle to a blue-y mauve after complete warm-up. OK, so this sounds like sheer recidivism after the move away from the Versace-slave/fashion-*****-gilding tack of the Nu-Vista, a gimmick unworthy of a serious product. But even my most cynical audiophile friends had to admit: turn out the lights and it looks cool as hell, in a Close-Encounters-mothership-taking-off way.
Easier to justify is full remote control via a hand-held which contains controls for other MF products, including the forthcoming SACD player. Peculiar, though, is the need to fire it directly at the Tri-Vista for the remote to work, something which made me miss the radio (rather than IR) remote of the Unison Research Unico. My only other complaint about presentation is MF's continued usage - inexcusable after the lozenge-shaped Nu-Vista separates - of sharp-edged heat-sinks which surely break some EC safety law. In future, I will name and shame amplifiers which bear lethal heatsinks; there are no excuses for NOT rounding the edges.
Rated at a ferocious 340W/ch and able to deliver 40 amps of peak current, the Tri-Vista will drive anything you care to throw at it.
Some more info and reviews here;
http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/integrated-amplifiers/musical-fidelity/tri-vista-300/prd_325373_2717crx.aspx
http://www.musicalfidelity.com/uploads/manuals/English/tri300.pdf
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Location: Hurlstone Park, Sydney, NSW
Price: $2750
Item Condition: 8/10
Reason for selling: possible upgrade
Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal
Extra Info:
I am currently using this amplifier in my system and it is working perfectly. I have the remote control, manual and also the original industrial connectors for the power supply. Unfortunately I don’t have the original packaging. Please note that this unit does not have the phono module. There is some paint missing on the back edge of the amplifier casing (shown in the photos) which would be easy to touch up.
Musical Fidelity TRI-VISTA 300
Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300 dual mono integrated amplifier with power supply.
This amplifier was specially produced in limited series of 500 items, to mark the 40s anniversary of the brand. It is still considered to be the best integrated amplifier ever produced in the brand's history. It has a huge power - 350 watts per channel into 8 ohms or 600 watts per channel into 4 ohms. The amplifier is basically consists of two separate power mono amplifiers and a preamplifier for the left and right channel separately, all built into one case with the total weight of 30kg, and a power supply with separate outputs for the right and left mono power amplifiers and a preamplifier, built into another case of 16kg. The Tri-Vista uses a military valve in the input stage and a transistor in the output making it very musical. This also results in a massive but detailed sound stage.
There is a bit more information below from the Home Theatre review;
The outboard power supply is a beast at 14x6 1/4x9 5/8 in (WDH), and - as there's no remote power on - you'll need access to it for switch-on. As with the M3, it connects to the main unit via three cables for left-and-right power and a control cable. The 300's back panel contains industrial connectors for the power supply, a bank of phono connectors for five line sources, a damned quiet phono stage (plus earthing tag), tape in/out and pre-out, and two pairs of massive multi-way speaker binding posts to facilitate easy bi-wiring. Though the main chassis measures 19x6 1/4x16in (WHD), allow 20in depth for the fittings. Across the front, sexy in various shades of silver and titanium, are a mere three controls: rotaries for volume and source, and a press button to choose tape monitor. This is flanked by four blue lamps to tell you that the pre-amp and power stages are working properly.
Then there are the feet, which change colours from red at switch-on to orange-y amber when the circuits settle to a blue-y mauve after complete warm-up. OK, so this sounds like sheer recidivism after the move away from the Versace-slave/fashion-*****-gilding tack of the Nu-Vista, a gimmick unworthy of a serious product. But even my most cynical audiophile friends had to admit: turn out the lights and it looks cool as hell, in a Close-Encounters-mothership-taking-off way.
Easier to justify is full remote control via a hand-held which contains controls for other MF products, including the forthcoming SACD player. Peculiar, though, is the need to fire it directly at the Tri-Vista for the remote to work, something which made me miss the radio (rather than IR) remote of the Unison Research Unico. My only other complaint about presentation is MF's continued usage - inexcusable after the lozenge-shaped Nu-Vista separates - of sharp-edged heat-sinks which surely break some EC safety law. In future, I will name and shame amplifiers which bear lethal heatsinks; there are no excuses for NOT rounding the edges.
Rated at a ferocious 340W/ch and able to deliver 40 amps of peak current, the Tri-Vista will drive anything you care to throw at it.
Some more info and reviews here;
http://www.audioreview.com/cat/amplification/integrated-amplifiers/musical-fidelity/tri-vista-300/prd_325373_2717crx.aspx
http://www.musicalfidelity.com/uploads/manuals/English/tri300.pdf
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