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Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 - England's What Hi-fi? MagazineHi-Fi Choice Magazine Group Test Winner, 2017"Fine Rhythmic Ability, Good Phono Stage, and Solid Build and Good Finish"The Elex-R integrated amplifier from Rega is a sublime blend of Rega's Brio-R design with the power circuits and advanced phono stage of the Elicit-R. Rega’s engineers have achieved the perfect balance of power, control, and dynamics, delivering a performance that always puts the music first. You will find plenty of connectivity options, too, allowing complete flexibility and integration within the rest of the Rega range and other gear as well. The Elex-R is built to the highest standard and designed to deliver the best possible audio performance, while remaining simple to use and set up. The Elex-R uses the full-width Rega case with increased heat dissipation, which along with a larger transformer enables the Elex-R to deliver 90 watts per channel into 6 ohms and 72.5 Watts per channel into 8 ohms. "An Agile and Articulate Performer"The Elex-R won an award in 2017 for Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 from England's What Hi-fi? magazine. The magazine called it "an agile and articulate performer that gets straight to the heart of the music," and went on to praise its "fine rhythmic ability, good phono stage, and solid build and good finish." The Elex-R was also a Hi-Fi Choice magazine Group Test Winner in 2017. "Carlos Santana’s extraordinary Blues For Salvador needs an amp that’s open and resolute, but can really let rip and hit hard and, again, the Rega has the decisive edge and delivers the biggest thrill. It seems to calibrate the best the Cambridge and Naim can do with this track, and nudge it up a hair where it matters. Esperanza Spalding is more startling, Paul Simon more tender – especially on vinyl via the cracking phono input. While the other amps bring special talents to the group, the Elex-R delivers the masterclass." Built to Rega’s Extremely High Standards of Reliability and QualityThe Elex-R has been built to Rega’s extremely high standards of reliability and quality to ensure many years of musical enjoyment. The primary function of an amplifier is to boost and equalize the low-level signal generated by a phono cartridge, DAC, CD player, or other source component to a level that can drive the loudspeakers. It is vital that the amplifier achieves this whilst minimizing distortion, as this would directly affect the music. The distortion level is typically 0.007%, which is just under the clipping of the output. Professional-Quality Volume ControlThe volume control and preamplifier used in the Elex-R is designed to overcome the problems associated with the standard arrangement. This design uses a custom chip along with peripheral support IC's like a microcontroller and a custom made rotary volume control. The Elex-R uses a combined feedback and passive volume control, where the feedback and input levels are varied to set the required volume level. The level and tracking between the two channels is set by the close tolerance parts in the preamplifier circuit and less by the actual potentiometer itself, thus keeping the mismatch of channels due to volume control tracking irregularities to a minimum. In addition to keeping tracking irregularities to a minimum, this method also reduces noise and input overload as the control will only ‘use’ the required gain to amplify the signal. This form of volume control is normally only found in professional broadcast environments where accurate low noise control of levels is required. Power Amplifier TechnologyThe output amplifier used in the Elex-R, Elicit-R and Brio-R was born after extensive research by Rega's engineers to develop a low source impedance emitter follower Class-A driver stage. This is based around a complementary pair of 150w Sanken Darlington output transistors. The technical and sonic improvement gained by the use of low impedance drivers is well known, however, it can feature high standing currents in the driver stage when using standard transistor configurations. By combining the low impedance driver with the Sanken Darlington transistors (with their imbedded thermal bias network running at a lower standing current) this combination forms a complementary emitter follower emulating Class-A conditions with good thermal stability with lower standing. Essential Inclusions at Their BestRega's time, effort, and money have been spent on developing the circuit and construction utilizing the highest specification of components throughout. As part of the design, Rega included useful features like preamplifier output, to enable the new Elex-R amplifier to be used in a wide combination of systems. The company avoided superfluous gadgets such as tone controls or a headphone jack, as they can obstruct the signal path and degrade the sound quality.
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Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 - England's What Hi-fi? MagazineThe Elex-R won an award in 2017 for Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 from England's What Hi-fi? magazine. The magazine called it "an agile and articulate performer that gets straight to the heart of the music," and went on to praise its "fine rhythmic ability, good phono stage, and solid build and good finish." Hi-Fi Choice Magazine Group Test Winner, 2017The Elex-R was also a Hi-Fi Choice magazine Group Test Winner in 2017. "Carlos Santana’s extraordinary Blues For Salvador needs an amp that’s open and resolute, but can really let rip and hit hard and, again, the Rega has the decisive edge and delivers the biggest thrill. It seems to calibrate the best the Cambridge and Naim can do with this track, and nudge it up a hair where it matters. Esperanza Spalding is more startling, Paul Simon more tender – especially on vinyl via the cracking phono input. While the other amps bring special talents to the group, the Elex-R delivers the masterclass." |
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