NU-VISTA 800
Up for sale is my beautiful Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 800 in excellent condition. Asking about 50% off MSRP. MSRP: $11,999. ASKING: $6,250 (Edit: Now $5900). Please feel welcome to send along any reasonable offers, but lowball offers will be politely ignored. FedEx Ground shipping from NYC at cost. Payment by Zelle at no charge; Paypal, please add 3%. Ask any questions and I will respond as soon as possible; happy to do everything to make this a memorably positive transaction.
9/10 Condition. No dings or scratches. Ships with all original packaging, manual, remote, and accessories. Per rave reviews and awe-inducing measurements in most every serious hifi publication, this has a dual-mono power supply for wattage through the roof, next to zero intermodulation distortion, build quality to die for, and the magic of beautiful sweet, highly-linear, and tube-touched bliss.
OUTSTANDING ACCLAIM
"There's no mistaking the velvety, delicate sound of a nuvistor front end. But unlike other Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista models I've reviewed and/or owned—in which the solid-state output stage acted almost as a dam to impede the smooth flow of tube sound—the Nu-Vista 800's power-amp section seemed to disappear, even as it exerted over the drivers of my Wilson Alexandria XLF speakers the strong control I expect from transistors. That was particularly true in the low end—but not at the expense of top-to-bottom continuity: There was an immediate and obvious sense of sonic "oneness," and of utter effortlessness and transparency.
It's easy to imagine a customer walking into an audio shop, being stopped short by the Nu-Vista 800, and saying, "Let me hear that." It's even easier to imagine that customer reacting as I did, at first listen and every listen thereafter. At $12,999, this is not an inexpensive product, but it's one that will bring a CD collection to new life and, when matched with the right associated analog gear, do the same with LPs. (I'd go solid-state phono amplification, with a lean, fast cartridge.) That imaginary customer could take home a Nu-Vista 800 and confidently say, "I'm done.""
MICHAEL FREMER, STEREOPHILE
Link:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/musical-fidelity-nu-vista-800-integrated-amplifier"The speed and punch you get from solid state with the 'love' you only get from tubes. This is a stupendously powerful integrated in a relatively compact chassis. Its behavior is impeccable. It suffers nothing – lightshow aside – superfluous. it is capable of both delicacy and machismo. And 16 years from now, we'll remember it!"
KEN KESSLER, HIFINEWS (89%, OUTSTANDING) 10/14
Link (PDF):
http://www.audiotuning.com/images/MusicalFidelity/MF-NuVista800-Review-Hifinews-1014_web.pdf"I feared for my back when I lifted the 86-lb Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 800 onto my test bench. But when it comes to the measured performance of this handsomely styled integrated amplifier, there is nothing at all to worry about."
JOHN ATKINSON, STEREOPHILE
Link:
https://www.stereophile.com/content/musical-fidelity-nu-vista-800-integrated-amplifier-measurements"The best mix of musicality, beauty and power is found in this noble amp"
BERNHARD REITSCHEL - AUDIO
"An outstandingly sovereign Performance"
MARIUS DONADELLO,- I-FIDELITY.NET 09/18
"All data are excellent, the output power is gigantic and completely sufficient for every situation in life."
STEREO-DE, Measurements (98%!)
Link (German):
https://www.stereo.de/hifi-test/produkt/musical-fidelity-nu-vista-800-945"No question; the Nu-Vista 800’s bass is quite exceptional. It has impressive depth and weight, while at the same time being unusually clear, very solid, and powerful. It almost seemed to add an extra octave; I hardly exaggerate. It really does seem to extend the low frequencies. And the extra bass weight has a reciprocal effect at the top-end, making the treble sound sweeter and airier... It oozes quality."
JIMMY HUGHES, HI-FI+
ABOUT
The Nu-Vista 800 measures like a dream but, more importantly, it sounds incredible. It is silky smooth with enormous transients and an effortless feel that is at once relaxing and involving. Of special note how the Nu-Vista 800 projects images between the loudspeakers so that you can almost touch them.
Nuvistor tubes were invented in the 1950s to solve the many shortcomings of conventional tubes and still sound much better than transistors. Unlike them, Nuvistor tubes offer very high reliability, low microphony, low noise, consistency from batch to batch, small size, relatively low power consumption and great technical performance.
The Nu-Vista 800’s technical performance is astonishing!
More than 300 watts per channel with unconditional stability margins and incredible load driving ability
Incredibly low distortion over a colossal bandwidth
Extremely low noise
Extremely flat frequency response
FEATURES
A work of audio art including the famed Nu-Vista value buffer stage
Five versatile inputs - Balanced XLR, CD, Tuner, 2 x Auxiliary
Both fixed line and variable pre outputs
Home Theatre bypass
300WPC+
Total stability margin, will drive any loudspeaker with ease
Cutting edge technical performance with the magic of Nu-Vistors
Dual mono power amps with separate preamp
Superb design, Heroic build quality
SPECS
Power output: 330 Watts per channel into 8 Ohms
THD (+ noise): <0.005 % typical 20Hz - 20 kHz
Signal to Noise Ratio: >107dB ‘A’ - weighted
Frequency Response: +0, –0.1dB, 10Hz to 30 kHz
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