Bye Bye Rega Apollo

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Arthur in Gadgets, Hi-Fi

Over the last few years I’ve been using a Rega Apollo as my main CD player and a very good CD player it is too. Quite unique in design with a highly distinctive top loading mechanism, rather than a usual run of the mill tray. The Rega Apollo is special in that on loading a new disc, it will scan the discs entirety as part of an ‘initialisation’ process and set it self up as best to read it. It also has a generous 24MB memory for use as a read ahead buffer.

However times have changed, I now find myself streaming my music for playback, either stuff I’ve ripped into iTunes or over the net from Spotify and internet radio stations. Streaming bring many convenience benefits when it comes to music playback; ease of finding tracks, random shuffling across your whole collection, playlists and checking out new unheard bands. As such, I’ve bitten the bullet and sold my Rega Apollo. I will miss it, it had a unique sound quality that my Mac Mini and M-Audio Audiophile USB soundcard simply can’t match.