{"id":154212,"date":"2023-01-20T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=154212"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:46:29","slug":"musical-fidelity-nu-vista-2023-premium-amplifiers-balanced-hybrid-externally-powered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/musical-fidelity-nu-vista-2023-premium-amplifiers-balanced-hybrid-externally-powered\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 2023 Premium Amplifiers: Balanced, Hybrid, Externally Powered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English brand with the Austrian address Musical Fidelity, under the direction of Heinz Lichtenegger (Heinz Lichtenegger) from Pro-Ject Audio Systems\u00a0, presented\u00a0new items from the Nu-Vista line: a gentleman&#8217;s set of pre-amps, which is proposed to be supplemented with a stereo assistant or a pair of monoblocks &#8211; to choose from.\u00a0The names of the new products are quite logical: PRE, PAS and PAM.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/225_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Nu-Vista PRE preamp circuit uses 8 6S51N nuvistor tubes in a fully balanced circuit.\u00a0The most precise stepped attenuator is responsible for volume control, and in order for the range of linear output signals to be sufficient, two class A amplifiers of 50 W each were included in the device.<\/p>\n<p>The novelty received 12 pairs of inputs &#8211; 6 balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA.\u00a0Powered by a carefully shielded external source Nu-Vista PRE PSU, repeating the design of the preamp.\u00a0The result of the developers&#8217; efforts &#8211; the THD + noise parameter is less than 0.002% &#8211; speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/226_techweek.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1102\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Musical Fidelity claims that the discrete circuitry of the Nu-Vista PAS class A fully balanced stereo power amplifier is based in part on the successful Titan model.\u00a0Nu-Vista PAS also uses a tube stage with 6S51N miniature nuvistors, 4 per channel.\u00a0Moreover, this terminal is also equipped with a separate power supply, which, of course, is called PAS PSU.<\/p>\n<p>The device is capable of delivering half a kilowatt per channel for 4-ohm acoustics, and 1,000 watts of peak power are promised for 2 ohms.\u00a0If this is not enough, it is proposed to switch to Nu-Vista PAM monoblocks.\u00a0They repeat the circuitry of a stereo model, but are capable of delivering up to 1,000 watts into 4 ohms or 1,500 watts into 2 ohms.\u00a0Power supplies for them are marked as MONO PSU.<\/p>\n<p>Musical Fidelity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicalfidelity.com\/news\/71\/60\/Nu-Vista-PRE-PAS-PAM-Now-Available\/d,MF-News-Detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nu-Vista models<\/a> were priced at \u20ac22,000 for PRE, \u20ac24,000 for PAS and \u20ac22,000 for PAM in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English brand with the Austrian address Musical Fidelity, under the direction of Heinz Lichtenegger (Heinz Lichtenegger) from Pro-Ject Audio Systems\u00a0, presented\u00a0new items from the Nu-Vista line: a gentleman&#8217;s set of pre-amps, which is proposed to be supplemented with a stereo assistant or a pair of monoblocks &#8211; to choose from.\u00a0The names of the new [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/musical-fidelity-nu-vista-2023-premium-amplifiers-balanced-hybrid-externally-powered\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":154213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-154212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}