Rega Saturn R power cord {stock} wanted to upgrade to better quality power cord

I have the REGA ISIS valve spinner and REGA OSIRIS integrated amp..... both came with the REGA Reference mains cable.

Ive auditioned them A-B swap-out with a bevy of both high priced and mid-priced 3rd party offerings  to this power cord. It is very well constructed and a fine performer , made by KLOTZ in Germany for REGA.

I stood them up against a bevy of $1000 power cords including OYAIDE , FURUTECH, ATLAS, ECOSSE, LFD , DIY with the top FURUTECH components , SHUNYATA and about another dozen in the $500 range including PS Audio, Audioquest blah blah

In all cases, tbe REGA was at least the equal and frequently actually better than all these contenders and pretenders...full stop.

my take: If your new REGA gear has the same power cable, just forget the fear and paranoia of thinking that a new 3rd party will get to a new perform level. You are wasting your money.

Here is the REGA website specs and pics

http://www.rega.co.uk/mains-power-lead.html

here is a dealer website info

https://www.musicdirect.com/cables/rega-ref-mains-power-cable

If you still want my system pics, send me a PM with an email to reply to

PS

in my chats with my local dealer, they highlighted to me that certain high end electronics from UK and Euro brands ( including inter alia LINN, NAIM, LFD and REGA ) perform at their max with their own proprietary power cable offerings, independent of price and whistles and bells when compared to the expensive 3rd party contenders and pretenders

As a dealer he said that REGA, LFD, NAIM, and LINN are all sensitive in like manner

My experience with my REGA cdp and amp confirmed the same. (Dealer was actually onsite at my home with the 3rd party cables when we did the first wave of A-B swap-in swap-out shoot-outs and bake- offs) .

Let’s remember the REGA Reference power cord is a $200 range cable quality build accessory ... so don’t get fooled into stepping down to SIGNAL or like budget cables

."Thickness" and similar isolated hype metrics are meaningless and mean squat. REGA’s own is the only one that I would pair up with REGA gear.

FWIW, I still use my quality build and fine performer LFD, ATLAS and DIY top-component FURUTECH power cables as fine performers in my "B" system.

".... The Rega Saturn R came with a very thin power cable . Definitely not the reference power cable.... Would it be worth it to upgrade to the Rega Reference power cord for my Saturn r ?..."

IMO.... Yup..... Definitely....

FYI

like any other cable and equipment piece, there is a break-in period. Before it settles down into it’s optimal performance status.
That includes ALL the new components, including your new cables and electronics.

For me, the REGA ISIS Valve cdp and the REGA OSIRIS integrated amp jointly and severally took about 400-odd hours for the initial 90% level of new gear break-in; with an incremental audio performance improvement series of steps on its Yellow Brick Road to Audio OZ .... and it it was NOT a linear process either. Rather, it was an irregular and totally ad hoc series of steps . Go figger... there were flat periods and then .... oh.... it sounds a bit better.

YOUR TAKEAWAY :

(1).... patience...patience..... on BOTH your new electronics AND cables break-in period.

My power cable break-in ( all cables actually....) was done in parallel to the electronics, but intuitively, I never tracked it separately . However, there likely is not going be any quick fix magic bullet "ah-ha moment " as soon as you take the brand new power cable out of its pouch and just plug it in. If the ISIS experience above is any better yardstick, your new electronics may follow a similar timeframe.

(2) The REGA cdp electronics in my experience crave a warm-period of  at least 2 hrs (?overnight is better ....) to see that "edge" and any sibilance evaporate .

tattooedtrackman OP
59 posts
01-17-2018 7:40pm
akg_ca Yea i keep forgetting the burn in period. So u are saying the Rega cd players sound better when kept on for at least 2 hrs prior to overnight warm up to sound the best?

Short answer: yup..... big-time !!