Hello to you...have heard many positive reviews of Rega Brio-R. Cyrus offers excellent sound quality too. (I'm familiar with Cyrus but never heard Rega) How these two compare to each other ?
Since seeing your question earlier, I've now read the latest WHF where the new Brio is compared to the Cambridge CXA60. The latter was amp of the year but they prefer the Rega for similar reasons to those Ketan highlights above.stereoman said:Thanks all. The good question will be - what is more important in music ? Detail or fun ? I need to simply take a listen to this Rega's famous musicality.
plastic penguin said:Given the OP has the Cyrus 8VS, personally I'd say the newer Cyrus 8XP would be more of an upgrade. My experience of any upgrade (any make) to a MKII or VS2 tends to be subtle.
Having heard both amps, I would say the VS2 is more speaker dependent. Drummerman could probably elaborate more as he's a Cyrus fanboy.
Not heard any of the Brio amps.
plastic penguin said:Good stuff. Let us know how the two compare.
plastic penguin said:That all sounds positive, stereoman. Although not heard the 8vs i have read before that the '2' has smoothed off the rough edges. Your views seem to confirm that.
Would be interested to gauge your views on the old Dynaudio Audience 52 or 52SE. Did hear these years ago with the original Cyrus 8 in a shop, and the pairing sounded impressive.
plastic penguin said:Like you it was an awful long time ago. More recently I heard Dyn Contour S1.3 on the end of a Naim XS - incredibly impressive. The downside of the Contours is they need shedloads of room. The cabinets are horrendously deep. You could put wheels on those Contours and drive them to the shops *wink*
Anyhooo... it seems the Leema Xeros are a good match with Cyrus -- not heard any Leema speakers.
QuestForThe13thNote said:I was going to recommend a speaker change as I think if you wanted a bigger sound upgrade for not much cash, I'd go there. But I see you changed the amp anyway. I've owned cyrus stuff from the basic intergrated to signature amps I currently have, a good upgrade is adding an x power. But I tried that atlas hyper and I didn't really like it with my speakers, but obviously every speaker is different. It was lacking a bit of detail and dynamics, and if you went for something like chord odyssey or clearway speaker cable, you'd get added detail resolution with the Cyrus. Depends on tastes of course.