I look forward to the Gandyvarius. Hopefully he won’t be doing saxophones so I won’t be tempted to upgrade mine. There again the software will still be pretty woeful.
Rega Naia
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dave charlton
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Craig B
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yuckyamson
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And I've been selling it for the same amount of time..
Craig B
Re:trophile
Sensible hifi since 1973?And I've been selling it for the same amount of time..
yuckyamson
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One friend told me in confidence (both privately and with assuredness) that the difference between the P10 and the NAIA was nary the same as the difference between his first wife and his last girlfriend: much smoother, better rhythm, lighter and ultimately worth the increased cost.
Tony L
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Have you ever picked one up? They are surprisingly heavy! Much the same as a Precision at around 4kg IIRC.
PS The modern wood ones are very light.
Craig B
Re:trophile
I hear you, Dave. That is, at least as well as any fellow 'old timer' can.
Rega's revel of the Naia at the Bristol show was fact free apart from the price (£9,200 excluding cartridge). Given it looks similar to the P10 I would have thought they would have been keen to justify the extra cost by highlighting the Naiad features which are incorporated.
This video describes the ceramic bearing although I don't understand how it removes the need for a sleeve. Presumably the graphene in the foam improves the stiffness/weght ratio compared with the P10 (and the Naiad?). Some figures would have been nice.
Interestingly the electronics guy talking through the turntable design doesn't mention the power suppply. Will this be part of a further video in 'Dance of the seven veils strategy'?
NickofWimbledon
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Back in the dim past, I studied aeronautical engineering. If strength-to-weight ratio is the only important number, then I'd have to support you.
Craig B
Re:trophile
AFAIK no Rega bearing well has ever been sleeved, including the ceramic one used in Naiad. I suspect that the Rega fellow interviewed may have been commenting on how other makers resort to polymer sleeves within their bearing wells (Linn, for example, who should know how to do better than this). This isn't to suggest that there is no bearing well present, as that would be a very different thing.
Also, it should be noted that this isn't an official Rega video covering Naia, only some select responses to questions from a subjective magazine reviewer at a show. Surely, Hi-Fi News and Record Review will eventually get to the bottom of all these Rega things that have been named for water nymphs (with Stereophile eventually copying their work).
Tim Jones
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I'm repeating myself here, but there are many different varieties of CF - high and low modulus, nanotube, etc. A lot of what purports to be CF is really just heated and stretched plastic under a pretty printed sleeve. Well, it all is in a way, but some is just nasty, full of voids, irregular, etc.
There are also distinctly different varieties of alu, usually mixed with other different elements - often scandium - to produce differing strength to weight ratios. 7005, 7003, 7075, 61.10, etc. There are at least two common commercial varieties of Ti - 3.2 and 6.4, with the latter being lighter and more rigid, but a pig to machine.
Even more boringly, "strength" also can refer to different things - most notably instantaneous rigidity (where alu is still very high scoring) as opposed to strength under torsion, etc.
NickofWimbledon
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My apologies for getting you to repeat yourself.
I am hoping that this thread does not need discussion of Young's Modulus, or of resistance to deformation versus resistance to failure: life's too short.
