Classic combo
SUMMARY
Musical Fidelity M2si integrated amplifier Price: $2000
M2sCD CD player Price: $2000
+ Solid sound-first hi-fi
+ Refined yet muscular performance
+ Good installation flexibility
– No digital inputs
– No headphone outputs
Anyone seeking a classic hi-fi system based around an integrated amplifier should already have Musical Fidelity on their audition list. And all the more so now that the UK company is bounding forward with a new lease of life under the umbrella of Audio Tuning, owned by Heinz Lichtenegger, founder of Pro-Ject Audio Systems, who took over Musical Fidelity from its equally legendary founder Antony Michaelson in 2018.
This was no corporate buyout; indeed from Lichtenegger’s perspective it was just bringing a longstanding partnership under his own roof. He and Antony Michaelson have connections going back three decades, when Lichtenegger started his international distribution business with Triangle and Musical Fidelity, which he calls “a magical combina-tion which helped make me the number one audio distributor in Austria”. As the distributor of Musical Fidelity products in Austria for more than 30 years, taking over the company made good sense.
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