Rega Isis CD player
Rega’s flagship CD player, the Isis,is a product manufactured to the highest achievable quality inside and out including Rega's own unique CD technology, genuine black chrome lid and front facia and a custom solid anodised aluminium case weighing in at a notable 19kg!
- The Rega Isis CD player has drawn on countless years of experience in specialist hi-fi manufacturing to craft a very special machine.
- Rega has developed its own unique CD technology to optimise sonic performance, converting internal amplification into an analogue voltage.
- You can rest assured that each and every component of the Rega Isis CD player has been carefully selected to maintain the integrity of the audio signal.
- The Rega Isis CD player allows for direct USB input to connect to laptops and PCs, enabling users to stream high-quality internet radio, MP3 and WMA files direct from the computer through the Isis’ internal DAC.
The Rega Isis analyses every single disc on an individual basis and adjusts its readings to the disc in order to transmit problem-free audio. Indeed the Isis can also read and play CDs with marks and scratches that other CD players simply cannot read.The valve Isis shares the same digital and USB sections as found in the solid state version, however, the analogue stage is valve based with passive filtering. This stage uses two military specification triple mica 5814A (ECC82/12AU7) triodes being driven by the revolutionary Wolfson WM8741 ultra high performance digital to analogue converter.
The output buffer and transformer driver stage uses two ECC88 (6DJ8/6922) triodes.
This, like its solid-state stable mate, is of an un-orthodox design. The design goal with this player was to keep away from the normal design approach of "let’s run it through a valve to make it sound warm", but take advantage of industrial valve circuits to make an articulate and competent valve based CD player. Careful choice has been made for every component in the digital and the analogue signal path to ensure the integrity of the signal.
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Discrete class A operational amplifiers and filters.
Optimised for sonic performance.
Low noise, high drive capability and gain bandwidth.
Careful design of the PCB's.
MP3 and WMA Media capabilities.
Audio grade electrolytic capacitors.
Solid polymer capacitors
'Rega K-Power' smoothing capacitors.
Enhanced and optimised control code.
Two Burr Brown PCM1794 digital to analogue converters, running in a parallel dual mono mode.
High performance discrete class A current to voltage amplifier.
Wide dynamic range, low distortion,
10 separate power supply regulators are used in the analogue circuit.
10 separate power supply regulators are used in the digital circuit.
50VA transformer.
The mechanism is graded and matched to the servo circuits.
Rega custom designed and CNC machined aluminium case work.
High quality anodised finshed.
Aesthetic black chrome facia and lid.
CNC machined matching remote control.
Dimension needed to operate: Width 434mm x Depth 350mm x Height 200mm
Weight 19.5Kgs