Rega io

Signature Rega sound in a highly accessible package

View online review whf.cm/io While Rega used to make a high-end DAC called ‘io’, the naming of its budget stereo amplifier is almost certainly a nod to the familial link with its big brother, the excellent Rega Brio. Billed as a smaller, cheaper Brio, it quite reasonably has half its name. But that doesn’t quite translate to half its performance. The class A/B-powered, 30W-perchannel, entry-level Rega io can be purchased individually, or as part of Rega’s System One all-in-one proposition with the Planar 1 turntable and Kyte speakers. It borrows the power amplifier and phono stage from its Award-winning older sibling and that goes a long way to explain the pleasing sonic resemblance between the two. To pack such a performance into this price point, Rega has, as has been tradition…

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