kristoffer
Danish Hi Fi NERD
Rega are working on new MM PUs. Briefly mentioned is this new interview. It also sounds like the next speakers from them won't be made of wood.
Rega are working on new MM PUs
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Excellence is always a matter of opinion. I'm not saying that plastic speakers can't sound good. Just that I tend to like wooden ones myself.
Craig B
Re:trophile
IIRC, you enjoyed a pair of loudspeakers that were a hybrid of wood and plastic, for some years.
Craig B
Re:trophile
Interesting hint wrt MM developments, although, it sounds as though new production models are some way off, vis-à-vis, them being in the modelling stages now.
As a related bit of trivia; Rega's own built MMs also eschew convention by not employing a cantilever suspension tie wire, relying instead upon the damped pivot block to be both suspension and damped pivot. Rega weren't actually the first to do this, one of audio-technica's DM ('Duexciting Magnet') IM (yes, IM) series from the 1970s, called AT-66, lacked a suspension wire. There was a virtually identical next IM series up called AT-21, with wired cantilever. A-T's IM experiments were short lived; I wonder if Rega might head down this road.
As a related bit of trivia; Rega's own built MMs also eschew convention by not employing a cantilever suspension tie wire, relying instead upon the damped pivot block to be both suspension and damped pivot. Rega weren't actually the first to do this, one of audio-technica's DM ('Duexciting Magnet') IM (yes, IM) series from the 1970s, called AT-66, lacked a suspension wire. There was a virtually identical next IM series up called AT-21, with wired cantilever. A-T's IM experiments were short lived; I wonder if Rega might head down this road.
wow&flutter
pfm Member
No mention of where the current loudspeaker cabinets are built.
Yes. Linn Saras have a plastic baffle but the box is still wood. I just seem to like the colouration and warmth a bit of wood adds to the mix.
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
SARAs, coloured!
It's very slight ;0)
I have a pair here now. My son, who is a sound tech, ran them through an oscilloscope and was horrified by the harmonic distortion he saw. I just shrugged and said 'Yeah well, that's probably why I like them'.
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
TBH, I think pretty much any speakers would show 'horrific' harmonic distortion when measured that way.
Tony L
Administrator
As did the 1960s Goodmans Maxim!
TimF
pfm Member
I always liked this version of the little SCM-7, had a pair and wish that I had kept them. While the newer version tweeters are better, I just liked the old school boxes with this baffle better. Go figure.I thought it was interesting that ATC used a metal baffle on the original SCM-7’s.
From their website:
The Kytes are meticulously hand assembled in house using our unique design phenolic resin cabinet. Internally they feature ceramic plates and carefully engineered cross bracing developed to make the cabinet extremely stiff.
Most recent years Rega MM offering were not that popular, they have discontinued Bias and delayed Elys due to missing parts, only Exact seem to be in range for the time being.
Doubt we ever experience more Elys/Bias.
Guess they work on some refinement of OEM choices, much better profit if they use manufacture time to make MC.
Robert M
pfm Member
Sounds like he'd like to abandon speaker manufacturing completely