Musical Fidelity A3CD player

It is a very transparant, detailed, and in my system very dynamic. As good as any player in the under $1000 new market. If you are looking for lush, warm player this is not for you. Sam Tellig, Wes Phillips, and British Audio press universally give it high marks. However the best sound now is acheived using outboard DAC and just use CDP as a transport.

Hi MEGASAM, I have noticed that you own many Musical Fidelity products! I wonder if you are a Musical Fidelity salesman ??? Anyway thanks for your comment. I'd like to ask you which DAC do you recommend me to get that warm sound and musicality? How much it is? I listen to classical music, mostly large orchestral music (Mahler, Bruckner, Shostakovich symphonies, etc). I also own a Musical Fidelity A300 integrated amp. Thank you.

Cal, I do have a lot of MF gear, the DAC for you if you can swing the price is the new Bel Canto DAC1 with new power supply and tweaked board, retail is $1295 but you should get some discount with your dealer. Very good for solid state system, slow roll-off filter in BC Dac1 removes much of the digital hardness from CDs, check Wes Phillips review of BC dac1 hooked up to MF A3CD at www.onhifi.com......BTW I own a A3 integrated for back-up system, and often bi-amp it with MF X-AS100 amp.

Thanks a lot for your info Megasam. Taking advantage of your knowledge about MF gear, what speakers (at any price) do you think are good to be driven by the MF A300 for my musical tastes? Have you tried Martin Logans with this amp? Do you think this amp provides enough current to drive this kind of speakers? Any suggestion? I think I will use biamping mode in the future, maybe with the MF A3cr amp. Thanks in advance!

Cal, I have not heard any electrostatic speakers driven by
MF so I can't comment. Personally I use PSB Silver-i and Gold-i, very good sound for the money. If you like warm sound you might look into Vandersteen speakers, many many choices, try to hear as many speakers as possible, everyone has their own taste in sound, good luck.