Rega RS1 and RS3 speakers

I juSt got a pair of RS5 yesterday. They must have about 30-40 hours of play time at low volume.
I have not spend time listening much music yet, but watched a blu-ray last night.
Very nice sounding: clear, detailed, reasonably clean low bass. They are somewhat forward and dry sounding, but not too agressively. Very dynamic. I will test the bass output sometimes tonight. I have noticed that there's not much upper bass. I do not know if they were voiced that way or if it is how they are positioned in the room.
But so far, I can tell that they detail very well, somehow takes you inside the recording. Acoustic instruments sound really nice. I have heard for the first time, or paid more attention to, details in recordings that I had not perceived before.
I drive them with a marantz pm8004. I'll come back and leave my impressions if interested, especially on the bass upper bass.

Both are fun little speakers. Very high value, Great sound for the money. They match up very well with the new Brio-R.

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Taylor
Goldprint Audio
www.goldprintaudio.com

I had the R1's and traded-up to the RS3 and I use a Manley Stingray integrated. I really enjoyed the R1's but I wanted a bit more bass. The RS3's seem to maintain the same nice midrange and treble as the R1's but with added bass from the side-firing woofer.

RS1 has great bass for its size. An exciting little speaker. I used the Regas for two years with a Prima Luna tube amp and an Outlaw Audio receiver. I would think that it would sound better with a Rega amp.

Rich

RS1 is an amazing speaker for the price... have not auditioned the RS3. RS1 works very well with Mira3, should work fine with Brio. RS1 really does need a sub however.