Rega Isis CD Player & DAC

Name: Rega Isis CD Player & DAC
Brand: Rega
Price: 18500.00 NZD
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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 and a custom solid anodised aluminium case weighing in at a notable 19 kg! We hope you enjoy this very special CD player; we have spent a very long time creating it, drawing on our many years of experience in specialist hi-fi manufacturing.

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Specifications

Frequency Response 17 Hz – 20 kHz ±0.1 dB
THD+Noise < 0.0013%
Wavelength 780 nm
Digital Sampling Frequency 44.1 kHz
Power Consumption 23 W
Mains Fuses (230 V Version) Analogue T500 mA / Digital T-500 mA
Mains Fuses (115 V Version) Analogue T-1A / Digital T-1A
Dimensions (W × H × D) 434 × 112 × 350 mm
Weight 19 kg

The Rega ISIS is a digital audio player that is worthy of being on the top shelf with the world’s best components.

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Rega’s flagship reference CD player

The Isis reference CDP features discrete class A operational amplifiers and filters optimised for sonic performance. Using twin Burr Brown DACs running in parallel dual mono mode, offering wide dynamic range with exceptionally low distortion.

Key Features

Discrete Class A operational amplifiers and filters
Optimised for sonic performance
Audio grade electrolytic capacitors
Rega ‘K Power’ smoothing capacitors
Wide dynamic range, low distortion
Rega custom designed and CNC machined aluminium case work
Lifetime warranty against manufacture defects

Analogue section

The analogue section employs two Burr Brown PCM1794 digital to analogue converters, running in a parallel dual mono mode, driving a high performance discrete class A current to voltage amplifier.

This combination generates an exceptionally wide dynamic range, low distortion, and linear signal. This drives an enhanced discrete Class A output amplifier. The circuit is fully balanced from the digital to analogue converters to the balanced analogue XLR outputs.

Digital section

The digital section is blue printed and selected, with major improvements to the mechanism, optical amplifier, DSP core, PLL, master clock & motor power supplies. Another 10 separate power supply regulators are used in the digital circuit.

This revolutionary player has been five years in design. Rega, together with its design partners have pioneered a highly advanced servo controller that uses the latest signal processing techniques to ensure that the raw data that is recovered from the disc is of the very highest quality. Because our fully digital servo can use highly advanced algorithms, the laser spot is kept in the optimum position for data recovery in terms of focus, size and tracking.

Tonal accuracy is also a strong suit with the ISIS. Lovers of acoustic music will notice the extra layer of detail and tonal body that the ISIS provides. Going back through some of my favorite jazz standards from Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins underscored what a fantastic job this player does at nailing the tonality of acoustic instruments. Naysayers of high end digital will be taken back at how natural this player sounds with violin and piano.

Where once I wondered whether the Rega pieces could keep up with established, pedigreed leaders in their class, I now find myself asking whether competitors can in fact keep up with the Isis and Osiris. They really are that good.