Nu Vista Vinyl upgrade
I thought my Nu Vista Vinyl phono stage was good as standard, however John convinced me that his upgrade would take it to the next level, he wasn’t joking!! It took a couple of weeks for the unit to bed in, but the improvements were dramatic the detail and sonics were in sharp focus, and […]
Phenomenal improvement to sound and listening pleasure.
In May 2025 I had an electrical fault in the house, and after repair my Poweramp kept shorting the circuit. I looked on line for someone who could diagnose and repair the problem. Within a few hours John had contacted me with a likely diagnosis, and a repair cost. Following a little more investigation on […]
Nuvista 800 repair and upgrade
Out of action for 3 years, completely blown and repaired by John with the stage 2 upgrade and just WOW WOW WOW …great to actually find someone who could repair the thing in the first place but the upgrade itself just takes it to another dimension. Highly recommended, cannot praise highly enough, John really knows […]
Best Ever Gamble
Technics SE -M100 Digital Power Amplifier and Technics SU A40 Pre Amp Review September 2025 Recently my beloved technics amps started to have problems with channels randomly disappearing and then coming back, sometimes after 2 minutes, 15 minutes, sometimes after 30 minutes, or a tweak of the volume knob would also see both channels come […]
Upgrade
After one month following your excellent upgrade I am really enjoying the enhanced performance of my integrated amplifier. The performance has been significantly improved at all levels and as you explained it continues to get better. The upgrade is exactly as you described and the work was completed within your expected timescale. Many thanks John. […]
Magnificent Improvement
I had previously owned many incarnations of Musical Fidelity equipment, cd players, amps, a dac and even a large pair of floor standing speakers. As you can imagine I love the MF sound. I decided to take the plunge and buy a preowned MF Nu-Vista 800 Amp from ebay in October2021. I also acquired a […]
John Sampson is Mr Magic
Firstly I must apologise for the long delay of this review, I’ve had alot of medical and eyesight issues, Luckily I’ve no hearing problems. Let me say I had a complete rebuild by John Sampson of my Musical Fidelity A1001 Class A Super Integrated amp (way back in June 2023) Well yesterday I finally got […]
Further Upgrades
Firstly, see my testimonial of December 2024. The system chad continued to improve, probably took around 100 – 150 hours to reach its full potential. Following the delightful improvements I was enjoying on the back of the previous upgrades, I decided to take the plunge (after a conversation with John) and have the power supply […]
Audiolab 8000A service
Some weeks ago I arranged with John to service my quite elderly Audiolab 8000A integrated amplifier. I was just not prepared for the massive improvement, much wider sound stage, much more detail, much better positioning and timbre of instruments, (e.g. I can hear the muted fanfare of the trumpet at the end of Beethoven Sixth […]
The Musical Fidelity Journey
This testimonial is long over due, having been caught up with the Hifi journey, I completely forgot to do the honorable thing and submit a review, so here goes the first of three reviews I will be submitting for different pieces of Musical Fidelity Equipment that Mr Sampson has worked his magic on. I first […]