Peculiar how you can have everything you thought you wanted and it still doesn’t make you happy. Frustrating, too, that you simply cannot measure the pursuit of happiness, there are no tick boxes or instruction manuals to follow.
The same could be said for hi-fi. You can reduce distortion to the absolute minimum, track rhythms diligently and express certain dynamics with consummate ease, yet still come up somewhat short as a listener. There’s no algorithm, no discernable measurement that reads “feeling”.
As with any pair of speakers, there are compromises with Rega’s RX1s. But most of our discussions while testing them centre on that unknown quantity: why aren’t we enthused by what we’re hearing?
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