MUSICAL FIDELITY M6x VINYL MM/MC PHONO AMPLIFIER
Musical Fidelity’s new M6x Vinyl MM/MC phono stage is a game-changer for many reasons. It’s one of the few phono stages to feature balanced inputs. It’s one of the few that offers multiple phono inputs — three to be precise — and one of the very few multi-input phono stages that allows different loadings for each input, applying them automatically whenever a particular input is selected.
Equipment
So the M6x Vinyl’s purpose is to take the low-level signal from a turntable cartridge, either moving magnet or moving coil, and raise it to the line-level of a normal amplifier input, providing a dedicated optimised environment to do so. It’s unusual in using discrete components (individual resistors, capacitors, transistors, etc.) rather than op-amp chips. The reason, according to Heinz Lichtenegger: “Countless hours of listening tests have shown us that even the very best op-amps do not tend to be so neutral, natural, dynamic or vivid — all of which are characteristics of the Musical Fidelity sound.”
Gillan’s singing (and his screaming!) on this track is a standout for his amazing range and versatility, and the M6x Vinyl was able to reveal it to us effortlessly…
The M6x Vinyl is also unusual in offering both balanced and unbalanced
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