Rega Valve Isis Ref CD Player

Rega’s now legendary head electronics engineer Terry Bateman spent 10 years researching the concept of a CD player using valves in the output amplifier. Valves have been widely used in musical instrument and recording amplification from the 1950s to the present day, therefore it made great sense to develop a valve based CD player to match that of the signal chain found in such applications.

• Format: CD, plus USB A-B input for computer playback at 44.1 kHz
• DAC: Wolfson WM8741 dual DAC
• Output stage: two 5814A triodes differential, two ECC88 buffer triodes
• Dimensions: 434 x 200 x 350 mm
• Weight: 19.5 kg
• Power draw: 46W