Musical Fidelity A3CD player

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.

It is an outstanding value for the money. Also it is not the same as the X-ray. The guts are the same but the larger frame/box results in less internal electronic interference and cleaner sound. It also does possess a good musicality. Not soft or lush but open clean and musical. I compared it with Proceed cdp, and rega planet. It was much better than both in my system. Amps icluded Conrad cj 11a, A.R. VT 100 II, Music Fidelity A3cr (which is one heck of an amp at $$$)
using A.R. LS 15 preamp, cotour 1.8 speakers and Mission 750 le speakers.

Megasam:I'm an owner of an 'older' Bel Canto DAC1 unit. Do you know if Bel Canto will do a reasonably priced update (power supply) on it?