REGA ELEX-R

Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 - Englands What Hi-fi? Magazine

Features
Rega custom full width case with improved heat dissipation
Combined feedback & passive volume control pre-amp
90 watts per channel into 6 Ohms / 72 watts into 8ohms
High specification integrated phono stage
Enhanced power supplies for the driver stage
Hybrid of the Brio-R and Elicit-R design
Dedicated mini remote handset included
Pre-amp out / Record out / 4 line inputs
New custom transformer

"Fine Rhythmic Ability, Good Phono Stage, and Solid Build and Good Finish"
The Elex-R integrated amplifier from Rega is a sublime blend of Regas 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, too, allowing complete flexibility and integration within the rest of the Rega range and other gear as well.
The Elex-R is built to the highest standard and designed to deliver the best possible audio performance, while remaining simple to use and set up. The Elex-R uses 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 6 ohms and 72.5 Watts per channel into 8 ohms.

"An Agile and Articulate Performer"
The Elex-R won an award in 2017 for Best Stereo Amplifier £700-£1500 from Englands What Hi-fi? magazine. The magazine called it "an agile and articulate performer that gets straight to the heart of the music," and went on to praise its "fine rhythmic ability, good phono stage, and solid build and good finish."
The Elex-R was also a Hi-Fi Choice magazine Group Test Winner in 2017. "Carlos Santana’s extraordinary Blues For Salvador needs an amp that’s open and resolute, but can really let rip and hit hard and, again, the Rega has the decisive edge and delivers the biggest thrill. It seems to calibrate the best the Cambridge and Naim can do with this track, and nudge it up a hair where it matters. Esperanza Spalding is more startling, Paul Simon more tender – especially on vinyl via the cracking phono input. While the other amps bring special talents to the group, the Elex-R delivers the masterclass."
Built to Rega’s Extremely High Standards of Reliability and 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, CD player, or other source component to a level that can drive the loudspeakers. It is vital that the amplifier achieves this whilst minimizing distortion, as this would directly affect the music. The distortion level is typically 0.007%, which is just under the clipping of the output.
Professional-Quality Volume Control
The volume control and preamplifier 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 ICs 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 preamplifier circuit and less by the actual potentiometer itself, thus keeping the mismatch of channels due to volume control tracking irregularities to a minimum. In addition to 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.

Specification
Power Supply
Voltage: 115v
Frequency: 60Hz
Power Consumption: 250 Watts
230v Fuse: T3.15AL 20mm
115v Fuse: T5AL 20mm
Dimensions W 430mm x D 320mm x H 80mm
Weight 10.79 Kg
Output Power
72.5W 8 ohms both channels driven - Design center rating 90W 6 ohms both channels driven - Rega speaker impedance rating
113W 4 ohms both channels driven
Phono Input
Sensitivity (72.5W 8 ohms 1.7mV (Load 47K in parallel with 220pF)
Maximum input level: 100mV
Line Input
Sensitivity (72.5W 8 ohms 164mv (Load 30-50K)
Maximum input level: 10v
Tape Output
Level: 164mV with rated input
Output impedance: 470
Line Output
Level: 625mV with rated input
Output impedance: 600