Rega ELEX-R Integrated Amplifier – Black Finish –DEMO/DISPLAY

Rega Elex-R integrated amplifier in black finish.  This is the current model in the line of Rega amplifiers.  The Rega Elex-R is NOT refurbished or
re-certified units and a demonstration unit. The unit is primarily a display
model and was demonstrated when requested by a customer to hear the unit.  The unit was on the floor for one and a half
years.  The unit is a 9 out of 10
condition because the unit has been on display for over one year but can qualify
as a 10 out of 10 if it was less than a year as a display.

Shipping – Included
with purchase of the unit within most contiguous US states(lower 48
states) only. Shipping cost is added to buyers in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii,  Guam and Virgin Islands.

Elex-R

The Elex-R is a
sublime blend of the Brio-R design with the power circuits and advanced
phono stage of the Elicit-R. Rega’s engineers have achieved the
perfect balance of power, control and dynamics, delivering a performance that
always puts the music first.

You will find plenty of
connectivity options allowing complete flexibility and integration within the
rest of the Rega range.

Winner of the WHAT
HI-FI? AWARDS 2014, 2015 & 2016 for Best stereo amp.

Design Innovation

The Elex-R is built to the highest
standard and designed to deliver the best possible audio performance whilst
remaining simple to use and easy to setup.The Elex-R is built into the full
width Rega case with increased heat dissipation, which along with a larger
transformer enables the Elex-R to deliver 90 Watts per
channel into 6Ω and 72.5 Watts per channel into a design centre rating of 8.

Our time, effort & money have been spent on developing the
circuit and construction utilizing the highest specification of components
throughout. As part of the design we have included useful features like
pre-amplifier output, to enable the new Elex-R amplifier to be used in a
wide combination of systems and have avoided superfluous gadgets such as tone
controls or a headphone socket as they can obstruct the signal path and degrade
the produced sound quality.

The Elex-R has been built to Rega’s
extremely high standards of reliability and quality to ensure many years of
musical enjoyment. The primary function of an amplifier is to boost and
equalize the low level signal generated by a phono cartridge,
DAC and CD player or other source component to a level that can drive
the loudspeakers. It is vital that the amplifier achieves this whilst
minimising distortion, as this would directly affect the music. The distortion
level is typically 0.007%; just under the clipping of the output.

The volume control and pre-amplifier used in the Elex-R
is designed to overcome the problems associated with the standard arrangement.
This design uses a custom chip along with peripheral support IC’s like a
microcontroller and a custom made rotary volume control.

The Elex-R uses a combined feedback and
passive volume control, where the feedback and input levels are varied to set
the required volume level. The level and tracking between the two channels is
set by the close tolerance parts in the pre-amplifier circuit and less by the
actual potentiometer itself, thus keeping the mismatch of channels due to
volume control tracking irregularities to a minimum.As well as keeping tracking
irregularities to a minimum, this method also reduces noise and input overload
as the control will only ‘use’ the required gain to amplify the signal.This
form of volume control is normally only found in professional broadcast
environments where accurate low noise control of levels is required.

Power
Amplifier Technology

The output amplifier used in the Elex-R, Elicit-R
and Brio-R
was born after extensive research by our engineers to develop a low source
impedance emitter follower Class-A driver stage. This is based around a
complementary pair of 150w Sanken Darlington output transistors. The technical
and sonic improvement gained by the use of low impedance drivers is well known,
however, it can feature high standing currents in the driver stage when using
standard transistor configurations. By combining the low impedance driver with
the Sanken Darlington transistors (with their imbedded thermal bias network
running at a lower standing current) this combination forms a complementary
emitter follower emulating Class-A conditions with good thermal stability with
lower standing.

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