Integrated Amps: How Good?


How good are the expensive solid state int. amp like Mark Levinson No 383 or Musical Fidelity M3 compare to their pre/pro counterpart?
Any inputs? Thanks in advance.
bigboy

Showing 1 response by megasam

Although many high end integrateds are quite good, there are problems having amp power supply inside same unit as preamp, emf distortions etc. Musical Fidelity M3 integrated
has seperate case for power supply to overcome this, so it is actually similar to pre/power amp seperates. There is a savings with one less IC and one less power cord with integrateds.

I doubt if Krell, Rowland, Plinius, Mark Levison are going to say their intgrateds are as good as their seperates.....but probably cost half as much for slightly less perfect sound. To summarize integrateds are best value,
but hard to argue they have equal sound to same companies seperates.