I have to agree with Stanwal. Don,t buy either . I own a Tri Vista 300(0ver 350 watts @ 8 ohm) and am quite familiar with the M3 . Way better built, sounding and lots more quality power and better pre-amp section. The phono stage in either the M3 or Tri Vista gives little to a graham slee era gold. I use the Reflex which is head and shoulders above the era gold and the built in. But to compare it to the era gold shows it is not to bad for a built in phono stage till you can add something later. I think this supports Valinars opinion of settling power first. Cheers
Phono Input in the Musical Fidelity A5.5???
I am a newbie and I am building my system from the ground up. I am trying to use quality equipment so I will not get the upgrade bug so fast. I am seriously considering the Musical Fidelity A5.5 Integrated Amp for an upgrade in my system (I am currently using a Marantz SR-6400). It will be joining a ClearAudio Emotion TT with Kirksaeter Prisma 210 speakers. What I am wondering is how is the quality of the onboard phono stage on this amp, or is it better to go with the A3.5 and with an external phono stage (ClearAudio Nano)?