Respect your vinyl
The Musical Fidelity M3x Vinyl phono stage is a first for Musical Fidelity in more than one way. To begin with it’s the first phono stage in the company’s M3 Series, which Musical Fidelity promotes using the catch-phrase “Great-looking, superb-sounding hi-fi doesn’t have to cost a fortune.”
The M3x Vinyl is also the first Musical Fidelity component to be built entirely in countries in the European Union, rather than its long-term manufacturing base in Taiwan. In 2018 Anthony Michaelson sold Musical Fidelity to his good friend Heinz Lichtenegger, the owner of Pro-Ject, who with his wife Jozefína (who owns European Audio Team) has multiple manufacturing facilities in the EU. So the M3x Vinyl is the first Musical Fidelity product to be built in one of these facilities. It remains to be seen whether Lichtenegger and his team will start manufacturing other Musical Fidelity components in the EU as well.
