However, he is quick to add that these are still early days for this new direction in music playback. “Why not the simplicity of just a laptop computer and a DAC?” “There are advantages in using a computer as a source, such as superior error correction ability, which the limited processing power within the confines of a CD player will not be able to match. “One can get significantly good results from a good computer and an external DAC connected via USB, which, all things being equal – and I have to be careful how I put this – would be able to rival a good CD player. Streamers and music-servers are still too complicated. Now, this may raise some hackles, but Gandy is of the opinion that one should get perfectly fine and CD-beating results using a computer, if the system is set up properly. “From my perspective, I don’t really get the idea behind a streamer – how do you define what exactly a streamer is anyway?” queried Gandy, who was in Kuala Lumpur on Aug 2-3 as part of his annual spot checks on Rega distributors this part of the world. “There are no plans, although we obviously are conscious of the directions the music industry is perhaps likely to take us. It still is significantly invested in CD players and will continue to be for a while, and it does have a USB-equipped DAC to appease hi-fi enthusiasts who are experimenting with computer audio systems.īut streamers and music servers? Rega head honcho is Roy Gandy is having none of it…not now, anyway. Naim, Linn and the likes may have thrown their lot with digital/network players, streamers, music servers or whatever you call them – in fact, Linn decided to stop making CD players a couple of years ago – but Rega is not about to venture into Internet realms. After all, the venerable hi-fi company was among the last of the famed British brands to go digital (the Planet CD player in 1996) and yet look at how far it has progressed today with the acclaimed Isis, Saturn and Apollo. JUST because everyone’s doing it, Rega Research is not about to jump on the bandwagon.

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