Couple sellers on ebay flogging their IO.
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Roy appears to be describing a recent update to the phono stages to an American who keeps interrupting him with flippant comments.There's a YouTube video where Michael Fremer tours the Rega factory. I am linking to Roy Gandy talking about Terry Bateman's discovery of what John Curl discovered in the 1970s (at 22:35 in the video).
If I understand correctly (I know almost nothing about electronics), he is saying that Rega used to use transformers to improve sound quality, but they now understand why that worked and are starting to use pairs of FETs in some amplifiers. But he's talking about input stages, not output stages. Does this shed any light on the matter?
The IO is a gateway drug.
You listen and think, blimey it's this good for £379!?
Wonder what the bigger Rega amps sound like.....
Extrapolating back from figures Robert gave in a PM it seems the Elicit R makes roughly 1WPC in class A, a very high figure for a class A/B amp and why it gets so hot. Seems they've gone for that "First Watt" thang and this can only be a good thing.
Hot because each transistor is dumping just over 4W at idle, i.e. nearly 9W per side.
I am going to demo the Elex R and Elicit R on Friday with about 75 different pairs of speaker
Extrapolating back from figures Robert gave in a PM it seems the Elicit R makes roughly 1WPC in class A, a very high figure for a class A/B amp and why it gets so hot. Seems they've gone for that "First Watt" thang and this can only be a good thing.
Couple sellers on ebay flogging their IO.
S.
I was poking about inside my Elicit-R recently, as it was running damn hot and cut out a few times. The output stage has +/-54V rails and 0.22R emitter resistors, which in my opinion are too low for good bias stability.
Will be interested in your experiences. Anecdotally over the years, it seems most preferred the Elex.
More than double that in fact. Because it's giving about 1W in class A.
But Robert's figures don't add up:
360mA X 240V = 86.4W
That's quite a lot more than the 60W measured.
But Robert's figures don't add up:
360mA X 240V = 86.4W
That's quite a lot more than the 60W measured.
Or it could also be that the Wattmeter measures true average Watts rather than RMS Watts.
No idea, it's just a generic £20 Wattmeter.
However the relative (large) differences between the readings from the Cyrus and Rega are what matter and confirm Rega's description.