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To say we were impressed by the RP8 - which is still available, by the way - would be an understatement. 'When the company really goes for it, shooting for the stars rather than trying to meet a price point', we said, 'the results are spectacular'. No. That implies that the noise should be well below the audible threshold when the system is quiescent. -70dB would be a good start. My worst of integrated amps is down 75dB. The best 80dB. Both are dead-silent when quiescent.
BRIO Mechanical Turntable Wooden Train Track - Compatible
Small Wooden Train Turn Table | Wooden Train Set Accessory | Brio Extension | Imaginarium | Thomas |Lilabo| Melissa & Doug The Planar 1 Plus is essentially a Rega Planar 1 turntable with the Rega Fono Mini A2D built in. Both are Award-winning products, of course, and Rega says it only felt natural to combine them together. We absolutely agree.
About covers much (but not all) of the high-end audio industry's attitude towards their customers. Bluntly, I can get noise from my speakers with the volume up, especially in the phono mode. But with the volume at 0, or with no signal other than in phono -not really. If I short the inputs on the power-amps they are dead-quiet. As it should be.
Brio Turntable - Etsy UK Brio Turntable - Etsy UK
If it is just an issue with power, do the math. Compare the headroom of your old amplifier to that of the Rega and to the efficiency of your chosen speakers. Looking at the Rega, it appears to be a moderately small unit at about 50wpc/rms/8, more at 4 ohms. Not knowing at all how it behaves at clipping, my only comment is that this is a rather small amp and may suffer from that smallness into certain speakers. For sure it would not drive either my Maggies or my AR3a speakers very comfortably - but those both are known power-pigs. But the point is if you are replacing a 100 watt amp with a 50-watt amp, all other things being equal you _will_ be disappointed. I note that the NAD you mention is only 40wpc/8. So, given that the KEFs are not particularly efficient, a 10-watt power difference is negligible. You would need at least a 100-watt amp to make a substantial difference. Onkyo's A-9010 is a fantastic stereo amplifier for the money and owns a area of the market where there's been a real shortage of talent lately. The design is functional rather than flamboyant, but the captivating, energetic sound is what's crucial here. In actual fact, almost every part had been revised since the last iteration - the P3-24 of 2007. The company had, fairly unusually, put some real effort into the styling, too. The core of the turntable was the same, though: simple, well-engineered and designed to put performance first. I'm seriously wanting to return this one, but I don't think the dealer will accept anything but a swap to another unit of the same model. Each turntable is a five-star product in its own right and so is a good starting point if you’re just in the market for a new record player. If, however, you’re looking for an entire hi-fi system – be it your very first or a hefty upgrade – this is the right place too.Cutting to the chase, amplifiers are not fine wine. They either add artifacts or they do not. They are either straight-wires-with-gain or they are not. To the extent that they are, they are good. To the extent that they are not, they are bad.
Rega – award winning hi-fi, designed and made in England
Rega's Elex-R arrived in 2014, 13 years after the original Elex, which was the company's second-ever amplifier following its debut Elicit the year prior. It's still going strong today – something we're very thankful. Because while the Elex-R's five-time What Hi-Fi? Award-winning streak came to an end in 2019 when Cambridge Audio's better-connected CX models showed up, it still remains a go-to for analogue purists who aren't worried about digital connectivity. This model kept much of what made the original Planar 3 great but added some serious upgrades, including a new plinth, arm and motor. The skeletal plinth was constructed using little more than foam - closed cell, polyolefin foam to be precise. Phenolic resin skins were added to both top and bottom surfaces to deliver higher rigidity and an element of damping, but the RP8's plinth still wound up being seven times lighter than that of the original Planar 3. Rega's goal of combining lightness and rigidity bore striking fruit in 2012 with the launch of the RP8.As with the Elicit and Brio siblings, its biggest strength lies in its effortless, uncompromising musicality; it's the kind of product that gets straight to the heart of the music and conveys all the emotion in the recording with ease. We anticipate the next-generation Elex (which we'd imagine is due in the not-too-distant future) with avid eagerness.
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