Steve, do you shop Bellevue or Seattle?

Seattle, Tony.

Steve

I also deal with Seattle, with Hans Brackmann. For what it’s worth, I find a text or call to his cell usually gets a response, but email can be very slow.

Hans is great [emoji106] - and always willing to help on site when you are swapping out speakers, amps etc.

I have a brand new S250 with the MvX upgrade. I got very lucky; I was waiting on a regular S250, using a loaner S250, for a few months. My dealer asked me last month if I wanted the MvX version (for some extra $$). I said yes.

So, I've had the standard S250 in my system for a few months, and yesterday installed an ice cold S250 / MvX. It's a big difference. First thing I noticed was added space, air, and scale. Then I noticed additional resolution. Then I noticed some serious torque/grip. For me, it feels like I moved into a new, better, line of gear -- not just a tweak. For those of you like me, who moved from the Progression amps to Momentum, it was like that.

I could go on; but I hate reading posts like this ("OMG; it's soooo awesome. And now, let me show you how many audio-adjectives I've learned.") I'll just say this: after some recent weeks of fiddling with various cartridges, SUTs, phono stages ... and pulling my hair out at times ... my 2-second reaction when I turned on this S250 was "Hey, dumbass, amps are pretty damn important." IOW, the diff was way bigger than the analog close-calls I had been fiddling with.

Let me start by saying, I hate you John!

No, seriously -- thanks for the report. What I hate is the sound of $$$$ just flying out of my bank account.

Guess I need to start back on the PB&J for lunch while I save some shekels for the inevitable MvX upgrade to come. Of course, all my best wounds are self-inflicted -- I just sold my S250 to Wayne and now have two M400s from Ed to upgrade!

New cars are vastly over-rated. Besides, no one can get a new car in 2022 unless they're willing to make a couple of the car dealer's mortgage payments. . .

Steve Z

Glad I only have one to upgrade. Funny I just shot you an email about waiting to hear more about the MvX upgrade, I open this thread and here it goes. Lol
In the meantime will be enjoying the S250 as is.

Wayne

thanks for the update, the MxV upgrade sounds like the real deal.

Has the sound changed any in the one month since this post?

I own a S250, so seriously thinking about the upgrade, however my system is sounding so good now - do I really need to?

Turntable — yes it has changed. It went through a spell of sounding very hard. Break-in if you ask me. Back to 100% goodness now.

Hey fellas. Anybody else take the plunge and do the upgrade?

I'm considering upgrading my S250.

I've debated buying a used S250 and bi-amping my setup.

Wondering if the "cheaper" option to run with 1 (which has already had more than enough grunt on it's own) to the MxV would be "better" sounding-

Thoughts?