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Rega P3 For All....Redesigning A ClassicReplacing the 5 times What HiFi magazine product of the year (the Rega RP3 turntable) was never going to be an easy task.However,the owner and founder of Rega,Roy Gandy and his design team took 2 years to develop the all new Planar 3 turntable following the biggest redesign of the iconic "three" model ever seen.How big is the redesign........Rega claim that only 2 parts of the outgoing RP3 are incorporated in the Planar 3 design.This would have t …

Q Acoustics BT3 Award Winning Active SpeakersThe Q Acoustics website is very straightforward on a simple fact.....the design brief is to produce the world's best speakers "for the money".They have been winning multiple awards for their designs over the last couple of years which would certainly ratify their claims.The Q Acoustics BT3 is an interesting and exceptionally versatile product.They are powered stereo speakers with a number of analogue and digital inputs plus Aptx Bluetooth streaming.Th …

Focal Little Bird 2.1 System - A Stylish Way to PlayA true compact system,the Focal Little Bird 2.1 system connects to classic audio  sources such as CD,DVD,TV,etc. through either analogue or digital inputs.It also has the ability to wirelessly transmission from Iphone,Ipad or a computer.Focal is a French company that is famous for making exceptionally high quality loudspeakers.Their top model,the Grand Utopia,is acclaimed as being one of the best speakers ever.This technology has helped Fo …

The Difference Between Low Priced and Higher Priced TurntablesThere are very important reasons why turntables vary in price.They vary from the quality of the design,the build quality of their components,the materials of which they are made and the engineering expertise that has been incorporated into them.Back in the 1970's/1980's when turntables were in their heyday,most people owned a mass market turntable that really didn't do justice to playing records and deceived people into believing that …

Why You May Need A Phono PreamplifierWhilst in the original age of vinyl,from the 1960's to the 1980's nearly all integrated stereo amplifiers incorporated a special phono stage into which the turntable had to be plugged.The reason for this is that a turntable has a much lower audio output (sometimes as little as one tenth that of a cd player).Without plugging it into the phono stage it could hardly be heard.With the demise of the record in the 1980's and the shift to the compact disc medium,amp …