I HATE ad copy because it so sooo freakin mysterious in the details yet
ALWAYS describing how the item being touted is
BETTER while never really saying exactly WHY in a manner that you verify.
If it is just bullshit why then not just say "Buy this player because it just flat out sounds good and the reason is because we listen to our own stuff" rather than techno babble with zero foundation (better because blah blah blah but we can't tell you the details or we gotta kill you)
Don't mean to pick on the Rega folks but gettin' damn sick of "special" and "proprietary" and "secret methods we have developed (fkn Keebler Elves sneaking in after dark ?) " being the main selling points at the high end in recent years with absolutely NOTHING to back up the claims any human can sink their teeth.
I want to see white papers that are lucid or a patent I can look up which if the "thing" was truly revolutionary or new there would be one of and not links to a review section pointing to what joe blow thinks as if joe blow has EVER met a piece of high end gear he didn't like and will call a bargain even if it costs the same as a small cottage with attached garage
Sorry man.Impulse took my ass over after hitting a search and coming up with no more than the same old bull crap that passes for facts these days.
Strengths ?
Top loader.I have a woody for top loaders because they eliminate a weak spot in the transport and that is the weebly CD drawer mechanism (until you step up to the retard zone in CDP prices)
Is a Rega and that alone usually means you are getting something of value without too much of a beating in the wallet
Does not have a HUGE chassis filled with no more than air-a real design flaw that most are willing to accept just to make their players dominate a rack in stature.
seems to be solid enough
Wish I had some experience with the Wolfson DAC chips rather than just the Cirrus Logic and BB chips in the Delta-Sigma area which to be honest are not TRULY bad
as a technology as the earliest examples proved-but as
currently implemented are if only just because the manufacturers have decided to go with "IT'S IN THE BOX STUPID"
This means that other than wiring up a power supply and tossing on some output caps then dropping the whole deal into a chassis there is NOTHING for a
would be designer to design the chips being mostly a totally closed "plug and play" system block without any access to any operating parameters making every single player using the same chip set no better or worse than any other all else being equal unlike with NOS chips that have NOTHING added leaving the choices up to the end user.
mini rant over
