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Rega is a great value British audio company that produces a range of high-end sounding audio equipment including CD players, floor standing speakers, Hi-Fi amplifiers, phono cartridges and turntables. They are perhaps best known as a manufacturer of highly acclaimed and award winning turntables which range from starter systems right up to reference versions. Rega makes high quality equipment for home audio that are reliable, consistent and reasonably priced.

Representing the best of British, Rega is a brand that is loved all over the world and one that produces great quality audio equipment for a good price. From the finest turntables, cartridges and tone arms to DACs, amplifiers and CD players, Rega have produced an extensive range of high end audio equipment for music lovers everywhere.

At Oxford Studio we stock the full range of Rega Hi-Fi equipment both online and in-store so if you can why not come and visit us for a listen to the full range of Rega products in our dedicated listening lounges.

Rega fans out there will know that we have always questioned the marketing and science surrounding turntables. Experiments and research have allowed us to debunk most commonly held beliefs and use real engineering to produce world beating sound quality at sensible prices. However, the loudspeaker market is very different because a valid scientific and engineering discipline exists which in turn has created hundreds of competitors in the loudspeaker marketplace. The success of many loudspeakers depends on powerful marketing, eye watering advertising budgets (of which Rega spends zero) and financial inducement to retailers. The funds that most loudspeaker companies would spend on marketing Rega has put it all in to research and develop to achieve a totally unique cabinet constructions and our own high frequency unit and bass/midrange driver (incorporating a four layer voice coil). We even manufacture and wind our crossover components in house.

So why phenolic? Historically the accepted perception of a loudspeaker was a rectangular shaped wood veneered cabinet to compliment household wood furniture.

The market has always demanded loudspeakers to be furniture and since the 90’s European manufacturers were left with the choice of Far Eastern manufacturing or inflated prices for home built wooden cabinets. However, recent times have seen the world change styling perceptions and there has been a wholesale investment in modern moulding shapes and the use of functional materials. Injection moulded plastic loudspeaker cabinets are not new but flexible moulded plastic has been reserved for the PA world or small desktop loudspeakers where convenience and portability were a priority over sonic performance. This more recent domestic acceptance of non-wood functional cabinet shapes has allowed Rega to achieve a long term dream. We have made a massive investment into injection moulding of stiff thermoset phenolic resin and collaborated with British company to achieve it. The natural stiffness of phenolic resin is a big advantage which has been further enhanced with ceramic plates and a complex internal cross brace structure. This unique cabinet constructions has been achieved at one third of the price of other British made quality loudspeakers.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

System
2 way

Enclosure Design
Bass reflex, rear ported

Cabinet Construction
Phenolic resin

Mid / Bass Unit
Rega MX-125

Impedance
Nominal 6 Ω

Sensitivity
89 dB

High Frequency Unit
Rega ZRR

Dimensions (with rear foot fitted) (H x W x D)
325 x 188 x 232 mm

Weight (each)
3.73 kg

Power Handling
80 W per channel (this figure is intended purely as a guide as it depends on the quality of amplifications used).