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Start Me Up<br />
Rega’s small room solution<br />
Barry Willis<br />
Rega Brio 3<br />
Integrated<br />
Amplifier,<br />
R3 Loudspeaker,<br />
and Apollo CD<br />
Player<br />
First, a bit of history: Rega Research is now in its fourth<br />
decade of building high-quality affordable audio<br />
products. Along the way it’s made some legendary stuff, including the<br />
glass-platter Planar 2 and Planar 3 (P3) turntables, the RB300 tonearm, and<br />
the Planet CD player. A wonderful expression of delight in recorded music,<br />
the current P3 is available in eight color combinations. Components in bright<br />
happy colors are the perfect antidote to audiophiles’ often all-too-serious<br />
approach to music.<br />
While I have great admiration for U.K. companies like Linn, Meridian,<br />
QUAD, and Rega, I’m no Anglophile. I’ve especially never been able to<br />
26 December 2006 The Absolute Sound