I think MF pretty much ruined their credibility with all their limited edition products and a few badly conceived ones + crazy over the top claims and marketing. And I know there was a lot of bitterness among some customers to find that their expensive purchase suddenly became available at less than half the price they paid - not that long after they had bought it - when MF dumped failures onto the market, to move them on.

Failures in my opinion.....

Trivista SACD player - many went faulty, unreliable Philips SACD drive, not fixable. KW SACD not much better.

KW DM25 Transport and DAC combo - less said the better.

The Supercharger 750 K - less said the better.

KW 250S system - turkey. These ended up being sold for so little it was an epic fail.

KW DAB tuner - epic fail, also dumped for next to nothing, £1500 down to £250 ish. I note that MF don't even include it in their list of historical products.

I never got to hear an M1 turntable, so can't comment re sound but these didn't fly either.

I also think MF lost their way re how their kit sounded. Nu Vista was good as was Tri Vista but the KW stuff started the slip into a way too forward, hard sound - imho.

The new range X stuff was ok, but I think it has got better, and as such along with their smaller blister pack stuff has helped them get their mojo back, but audiophiles have long memories and those 2002 to 2007 issues didn't help them. I guess maybe MF aren't viewed as being cool and desirable these days, hence the lack of chatter re the more contemporary kit.

It tends to be the older products that folks wax lyrical about A1, A100, E and F series, the cylindrical X products (have a few of these and they are good fun), Old Nu Vista good, Tri Vista bar the SACD player good. I have a Tri Vista 21 DAC I still rate.

No idea about the new Nu Vista stuff, but it seems very dear to me, compared to older kit MF did.