Description
Rega Brio
First in Rega’s new wave of amplification, the Brio R, captured many hearts and became the epitome of the affordable audiophile amplifier. The replacement, now just called ‘Brio’ was launched at the turn of 2017.
It shares the half width casework size so the Brio takes up very little rack space. As the physical weight testifies, though, it’s a properly specified amplifier with 73 w pr channel into 4 ohms and a good quality MM pho stage too.
More to the point, it sounds excellent and is a useful, if incremental, upgrade over the preceding Brio-R.
The Brio has a completely new case to house its improved circuits and parts. It now sits in an aluminium case with a steel base which boosts the Brio’s heat sinking capabilities and improves on Rega’s already solid build quality and reliability. The new Brio has a cleverly integrated headphone socket specially designed to avoid interference with the audio circuit when not in use and as you would expect, a very high specification moving magnet phono stage is built in as standard.
We have it in stock and on demonstration.
RE-DESIGNED CIRCUIT
Key improvements have been made to the circuits. The PCB layout has been fully upgraded to handle higher specifications for all critical parts. A second raw power supply has been added to provide further isolation between output stage and the driver stage/line and phono amplifiers. This improves the isolation between high and low level signal stages of the amplifier. Higher specification MUSES operational amplifiers have been used in the line and phono amplifier.
BRAND NEW CASE DESIGN
The sleek and minimal look was designed to bring elegance to Rega’s classic style but still harks back to the swooped features hidden away in Rega’s past amplifiers. Combining all these aspects makes this Brio case a unique standpoint amongst the competition.
HEADPHONE SOCKET
For convenience, the Brio has the capability to drive standard hi-fi headphones from the internal amplifier. Adding a headphone socket was only possible by finding a way to reduce its impact on the main signal path so it doesn’t disrupt the overall sound quality. We have paid special attention to the switch that deactivates the main speakers.
Rega Brio specification:
- 50w RMS pc into 8 ohms
- 73w RMS pc into 4 ohms
- Remote control
- 5 inputs
- Headphone output
- Rega brand new custom manufactured case
- Rega phono stage (Input 1)
- Toroidal mains transformer
- Sanken 150w output transistors
- Dimensions:W 220mm x D 320mm x H 80mm
