The Elex R is made in the English Rega factory and is one of the best buys available for a real stereo amp that one would justifiably expect to last a generation or two in a family. In this business we get to make snap product judgments on the way a device feels in our hands when we take it out of the box...

We had the first Brio-R in the country, being the first made for Australia unit prior to stock shipment. Immediately out of the box it impressed as resembling mostly an ingot of solid steel, a real piece of cast in England.

Occasionally I am reminded of the old Ivor Tiefenbraun of Linn fame philosophy that he used to create the charisma of the original Linn Sondek LP12 turntable in the UK in the late seventies.

The Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show is the great Mecca for our industry. It attracts the best and worst of manufacturers and distributors and is noted as being the place for both opportunity and betrayal in our business sector.

It remains the single most requested piece of information at the beginning of a clients' consortation with a product; ”Where is it made?”