REGA RP10
WITH NAIM AMP, SOPRA SPEAKERS AND REL SUBS
£5,498 www.rega.co.uk – reviewed at winchesterhifi.co.uk
Rega design and make turntables for all budgets. Ian Peel finds out how their ultra-high-end deck fares when paired with some top separates and some heavy doses of Stevie Nicks and ABC…
This month, we’re travelling up to the very top of the turntable ivory tower, to the floor marked Rega, where the Essex-based hi-fistalwarts have the RP10 at the top of their range. Coming in at an eye-watering £5,498 (including the Aphelion MC cartridge), we had to match it up with a similarly salubrious set of separates. So we added one of Rega’s Aria phono stages (£798), notable for its full aluminium casing to completely screen any stray RH signals. Next up, a two-stage amplification system courtesy of Naim Audio: a NAC-N 272 streaming pre-amp (£3,469) and a NAP 250 DR power amp (£3,680).