In-Depth Look at Rega NAIA Turntable | Michael Fremer Reports...

Michael Fremer takes in an in-depth look at the Rega NAIA Turntable. Enjoy!
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[@mookie2637]

The Technics fanboys are hard at work in these comments. I'm willing to bet none of them have actually heard a Naia - or even any modern Rega.

[@glenncurry3041]

Rega seems to be making the rounds with their NAIA. Good deep level of details! Thanks.

[@erikbaas2003]

Great movie Michael. Love the Rega brand !!!

[@3dimensionsofmusic3D]

Amazing engineering. Thanks for sharing Michael 😊. Would make a great upgrade.

[@NickP333]

Hey Greg! 👋🎶😊

[@3dimensionsofmusic3D]

@@NickP333 top of the morning 🌄 Nick. Thanks for the lift 😊

[@Krell666]

Very nice!

[@jimsregaturntableshifijukebox]

Lovely piece of kit! 👌👌👌

[@TascamTascam]

More like a lovely piece of shit

[@Jason787]

My friend got to play a one on one mini gig for George in George's house. He told me how humble and kind George was. :)

[@AudioElectronicsChicago]

I like it 👍🏻

[@alitabbal9529]

I don't have $17,000 for the Naia, but thank you for this very detailed and fun review, those Brits are incredible, they will certainly use the O-rings on the Space Station😉

[@user-ex9zm7bg3x]

Rega is one belt away from an SNL skit.

[@garth56]

I heard the Naia just to hear what it can do Michael.. It's good and I mean for the money really good however in this 20K bracket there are a load of competitors and some better actually way better. If you like the P10 and want something more go for the Naia.. If you want imaging, serious bass then go for something else. I still haven't heard anything to change my mind about my Dohmann Helix1 V3. Although the Thorens ref might and I'm still thinking about it. great video btw ;-)

[@jpdj2715]

"In-Depth Look" is one thing but considering your "absolute" heritage, were you able to hear the difference between the first and second violins in one of your acoustic reference recordings? Could you hear the woodwind being in the far distance in Berlioz's fantastic symphony? Do "Living Stereo" discs sound like that and 1970s multi-track multi-mike Mahler recordings still sound like a muddy mess that lost 90% of the soundstage information? Did live and tacky "Old McDonald" by Pete Seger and his Weavers as audience sing-along in Carnegie Hall sound like a 2,000 seat concert hall while playing the recording in your smaller studio? And could you walk front to back through the soundstage between the speakers in the right zone to hear Pete and the individual musicians in row? That's not about gimmicks, but about verifying absolute sound qualities. Most reviewers today purely rely on synthetic studio recordings and hence mastering mixes that are bereft of proper phase and timbre changes associated with spatial acoustic clues. They also don't understand phase as part of non-sinusoidal sound waves and proper wave shape - basically don't understand human hearing and bandwidth. And then they forget that listening is easy but hearing needs to be learnt. I saw a master pianist select their grand for their performance and its repertoire choosing out of 5 candidates the hall had available. Each voiced a bit differently. Compared to the year before, 2 of the grands had been replaced. Testing each of them there was a description of their character and playing the 3rd candidate, the remark that "I played this one last year". Learning to recognize voices takes time and effort. Most reviewers have never heard an acoustic guitar in a real acoustic space or a violin, or ... Absolute needs explanations occasionally. But more than looks. How does it compare in sound to, say, a similarly priced VPI or German or ... ?

[@rdmeenach]

4 years developing belt material?

[@ΦΩΤΗΣΡΑΛΛΗΣ-τ8β]

Good evening. Do you justify the high price of the set.....???

[@EddyTeetree]

Must be a bitter pill for all the egoists with their $$$$ plus monster TT’s that dont perform any better!

[@stephenlegg262]

You didn’t mention the felt mat.

[@TheChianello]

What is the rumble spec?

[@chrislj2890]

Well at least it's not one of those behemoths that have several subsections, weigh hundreds of pounds and have a six inch thick platter. Those "audiophile' monstrosities really crack me up.

[@TheChianello]

Why not buy a direct drive turntable and be done with it?

[@chrislj2890]

@@TheChianello I have a direct drive and a belt drive, and they both work equally well. We have a vast choice of affordable turntables.

[@ΦΩΤΗΣΡΑΛΛΗΣ-τ8β]

good evening It is too expensive..!!!

[@robert143ize]

I have a rega RP 8 turntable. I bought it in rega dealer Malyasia. I got bullshit!!!! of using it. It's not durable and heavy duty. Not like Technics. Now my Rega RP I put on scrap..... The apheta cartridge always has a problem. I broke it. It's another bullshittt... Apheta MC Cartridge. The tone arm wire clip not strong to hold the cartridge terminal. 3 times i removed the cratridge the wire clips were broken. It does not compensate for its durability to its price... It's a good look but it's like a styro & put mikarta on each side to make it stiff. Bulshit engineering. I'm not happy with this kind of turntable I have so much regret for the rega maker. It's not worth it. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@jmtennapel]

You never owned a RP8

[@alkingborn]

I hope its horrible appearance is inversely proportional to the build and sonic quality

[@edd2771]

Your sarcasm aside, you’ve hit it precisely on the head. . Their whole design philosophy is the less mass there is, the less the mass can be impacted.

[@paulrogers7067]

Your kidding it's a work of art and sound to match

[@TascamTascam]

It’s a cheap child’s toy and a huge ripoff. The foam on the base is garbage. Hideous ugly toad of a turd

[@cyclistman6358]

This sounds more like a sales pitch, than it does a product review.

[@TascamTascam]

Because that’s all fremer does is kiss the ass of manufactures to get free products for himself; or at least huge discounts or super long term loans. You can believe anything from these salesmen who write for magazines

[@MrPINKFL0YD]

That dust cover is awful, as is the shape of the whole thing

[@jedi-mic]

That's just nonsense about the belts.

[@meesmo4]

It's hilarious Rega spent so much effort doing the belts when they could've just gone direct drive

[@jonbonzo9199]

Thanks for your words of wisdom professor. 😂

[@roryfraga3758]

yeah it’s almost like they’ve been doing belt drive for decades, it’s what they know, and the whole point of this thing is to push their particular design approach as far as it can go for a consumer product. There’s plenty of great DD options out there of that’s what you want :)

[@cyclistman6358]

Yeah, because we all know how easy and cost effective it is to make DD turntables that sound great. So hilarious

[@jemsmay2167]

CBTU (cant buy, too ugly…).

[@budsmoker4201120]

I am sorry a sl1200G will crush it

[@garth56]

How do you know that???

[@budsmoker4201120]

@@garth56 a table has a simple function. You can always over engineer something, it does not make it better. Where is the wow and flutter rating on these 5 figure tables

[@TascamTascam]

Cheap foam plinth with a Proposition 65 warning.. the foam looks horrible on the edges with pits in it. Motor mounted to plinth which is just plain stupid. It’s as light as a feather. No easy vta adjustment. Insanely priced. Looks like a child’s toy.

[@jmtennapel]

Reads like a child’s comment.

[@TascamTascam]

Looks like a cheap piece of junk. That foam looks horrendous