{"id":144308,"date":"2022-04-28T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=144308"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:00:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:00:04","slug":"rega-elicit-mk5-integrated-amplifier-with-phono-stage-and-dac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/rega-elicit-mk5-integrated-amplifier-with-phono-stage-and-dac\/","title":{"rendered":"Rega Elicit MK5: Integrated amplifier with phono stage and DAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British company\u00a0<b>Rega<\/b>\u00a0has officially introduced a new model of integrated stereo amplifier\u00a0<b>Elicit MK5<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Made in a classic design, the amplifier develops a power of\u00a0<b>105 watts into an\u00a0<\/b><b>8 ohm<\/b>\u00a0load\u00a0.\u00a0Functional equipment includes a built-in moving magnet phono stage, a digital-to-analog converter on a\u00a0<b>Wolfson<\/b>\u00a0chip, and a headphone output.\u00a0The preamplifier section uses FET circuitry from a top-of-the-\u00a0<b>line Rega Aethos amplifier, and\u00a0<\/b><b>Sanken<\/b>\u00a0transistors are installed in the output stage\u00a0.\u00a0<b>Alps<\/b>\u00a0high-quality potentiometer is responsible for volume control\u00a0.\u00a0To connect signal sources, there are 4 line inputs on RCA, optical and coaxial digital inputs.\u00a0The amplifier weighs\u00a0<b>12.5 kilograms<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Rega Elicit MK5\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-800x400.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-1080x540.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-770x385.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-1536x768.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-2048x1024.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rega-Elicit-MK5-480x240.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rega Elicit MK5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rega.co.uk\/products\/elicit-mk5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Rega Elicit MK5<\/a><\/b>\u00a0integrated amplifier will be priced at\u00a0<b>\u00a32,000<\/b>\u00a0in the UK\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Features:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bullet-list green-bullets\">\n<li>105 W per channel into 8\u00a0\u2126<\/li>\n<li>High quality moving magnet phono\u00a0stage<\/li>\n<li>2 x Digital inputs &#8211; 1 x optical and 1 x\u00a0Co-Axial<\/li>\n<li>High performance Rega DAC circuit for digital\u00a0inputs<\/li>\n<li>4 Line level\u00a0inputs<\/li>\n<li>Headphone\u00a0input<\/li>\n<li>Direct\u00a0Input<\/li>\n<li>Record\u00a0input<\/li>\n<li>New advanced\u00a0pre-amplifier<\/li>\n<li>Alps volume\u00a0potentiometer<\/li>\n<li>Thermal\u00a0Cut-Out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British company\u00a0Rega\u00a0has officially introduced a new model of integrated stereo amplifier\u00a0Elicit MK5\u00a0. Made in a classic design, the amplifier develops a power of\u00a0105 watts into an\u00a08 ohm\u00a0load\u00a0.\u00a0Functional equipment includes a built-in moving magnet phono stage, a digital-to-analog converter on a\u00a0Wolfson\u00a0chip, and a headphone output.\u00a0The preamplifier section uses FET circuitry from a top-of-the-\u00a0line Rega Aethos [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/rega-elicit-mk5-integrated-amplifier-with-phono-stage-and-dac\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":144310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-144308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}