Rega Brio & Bowers & Wilkins 606 S2 Package

Rega Brio & Bowers & Wilkins 607 Package

Rega Brio-R

• 50-watt output into 8ohms
• Built-in phono stage
• Headphone socket
• Compact design
• A Matching CD player in the Apollo CDP (Apollo Link)

The latest 2017 Brio from Rega is a long-established quality integrated amplifier, taking half the space of a traditional hifi separates amp and incorporating true audiophile technology to result in a deserving sound. Rega has revisited the Brio-R to develop and launch its 2017 equivalent, featuring a range of upgrades to build upon the R model's prestigious and well-earned reputation.

A new housing construction improves upon the Brio's circuitry and internal components. Its internals now sits within a two-part case, built from an entire aluminium design, upgrading the heat-sink capabilities of the machine as well as improving the already robust build quality and stellar reliability. The Brio sees the addition of an intelligently placed headphone socket, built to reduce the level of potential interference between this headphone stage and the main audio circuit with a superlative Moving Magnet phonostage built-in to the unit in a similar fashion. The Brio certainly delivers a high current feed to your loudspeakers, making it seem much more powerful than the 50W specification would suggest. A very high quality moving magnet phono stage makes the Brio an obvious choice to partner with the Planar 3 turntable and Elys/ Exact cartridge.

Voted "Best Standmount Speaker £400-750" - What HiFi 2018 / 2019 / 2020

Bowers & Wilkins 606 S2 25th Anniversary Edition Loudspeaker

• Larger Cabinet Speaker
  
• Outstanding Bass Response
• 165mm (6.5”) Continuum Cone mid/bass driver
  
• Available in Matte Black, Satin White or Oak

The Bowers & Wilkins 606 s2 speakers are the latest speaker in this multi-award-winning range. Combining a modern design with great sound this is a speaker that should be on everyone's list to listen to. What really stands out for us is how well the 606s2 goes with a wide range of equipment, whether you are pairing it with Rega, Audiolab, Marantz or Naim the speaker always gives a solid performance. 

The 600 range is now 25 years old. To mark this anniversary, Bowers & Wilkins has decided to upgrade this already excellent speaker with an upgraded crossover that now features better-quality capacitors, similar to that found in the higher end 700 series.

The new Bowers and Wilkins 606 AE standmount speaker is the largest standmount/bookshelf speaker in the range. Whether it's sitting on a bookshelf or a stand the 606 allows you to completely feel completely immersed with nothing but quality sound. The newly developed 606 speaker features Bowers and Wilkins' award-winning Continuum cone technology which will create a pure and precise soundscape. The 606 also features the smartly manufactured decoupled dome tweeter with a re-engineered assembly for enhanced performance.  This standmout speaker will sit proudly with a nice, clean look.  Bowers have removed the grille pegs and replaced them with magnets, the port has been moved to the rear cabinet, creating a modern and premium aesthetic, topped with a matte finish. The finish options are Matte Black or Matte White and Oak. 

Who are Bowers & Wilkins?

Bowers & Wilkins are a company that needs a very little introduction, having been constructing some of the world's most critically acclaimed loudspeaker and headphone models for half of a decade. Starting at the entry-level 600 S2 series, through to the 700 S2 high-end series and up to the 800 Diamond series and flagship Nautilus model. These different series of loudspeakers have been praised as the superior listening experience in both two-channel hifi/music listening and in multi-channel home theatre applications, having claimed a vast multitude of awards in both categories. A Bowers speaker can be easily recognised by the signature yellow Kevlar midrange cone, which can be found with their 600 and CM series with the 800 Series opting for a silver 'continuum' cone.

Bowers & Wilkins' highly acclaimed CM series was one of the company's most important loudspeaker ranges. Combining elegant design with outstanding sonic performance and available in a range of luxurious finishes, CM was positively received by the masses by both consumer-level and critics and reviews. The 700 S2 series builds upon the exceptionally high standard set by CM and raises the bar higher than ever as a class-leading range of audiophile loudspeakers.

Who is Rega?

Rega is a specialist hifi manufacturer based in Essex, UK and is renowned for developing and constructing some of the most highly regarded turntables (as well as cartridges and tonearms), electronics and loudspeakers available on the hifi market today. Rega was founded in 1973 and has honed its craft over many years of being a leading brand in every category it put a product to.

While Rega is renowned for building some of the best turntable models on the market, the company have also developed an extensive and highly acclaimed reputation in the design and engineering of quality hifi separates. Rega's range of hifi amplifiers and CD players are designed and engineered around their different turntable, phonostage and loudspeaker models to form a complete family, staying true to the Rega sound signature and quality of the build. Rega components will work with systems and separates from other bands, but perform at their best when accompanied by other Rega products.