REGA... Affordable Hi-Fi Made In Britain.
Since 1973, British made, rega components have distinguished themselves among the best value HI-Fi for the money. Their turntables have become legendary.
We recently connected the Brio3 amplifier ($999) and Apollo CD player ($1499) to our reference Bowers and Wilkins 802 speakers, to asses their performance in absolute terms. This isn't exactly a fair thing to do as the speakers are rutheless at magnifying imperfections in associated equipment. We were amazed at what we heard. The Brio3 had a grip on our speakers unlike anything we’ve encountered at its price. It sounded powerful and confident, with a surprising richness. It did everything right, sounding like an expensive 'high end' amplifier, but without the vast reserves of power that you asociate with high priced units. Still for $999we couldn't complain about that!
The Apollo CD player delivered a lush, detailed and thoroughly involving sound that most CD players at any price struggle to compete with. Everything about the Apollo is cutting edge... Three point disc loading chuck, pre-play disc analysis, 24 bit Delta Sigma DAC, Class A analogue amplifier stage. There’s a lot going on in here for the money. One giant leap... so to speak!
We were asking these components to perform well above their price limitations and they both delivered... big time!