Rega Aya Speakers

These are an alien shape in a shared showroom of MDF based loudspeakers. They are actually swooping and elegant with their design heart of sound quality worn proudly on their aesthetic sleeve.

Every speaker we open in Carlton Audio Visual has to pass an extreme tactility test. If the speakers were people we would be up for all sorts of workplace harrassment cases.

These Rega Aya devices feel like nothing else. Their encasement is prenaturally cold and solid to the touch, making all other speakers at their price range feel light and warm and vulnerable.  

The Rega engineers have put to the side MDF real wood veneers as a material that is cost prohibitive for the sound quality that it produces and gone on a search for the best bang for buck alternative material. They have come up with Glass Reinforced Concrete or GRC as they call it.

This uses real pieces of glass in the construction to make a superbly rigid structure. 

The material emulates an organic material with slight imperfections in surface texture and shading. Important not only for aethestic appeal but also acoustic performance.

The aim of this process wasn't to reinvent how Rega speakers sound, rather to find a material that sounds like their old MDF/veneer designs at a fraction of the cost.

In this way, the Aya's sound remarkably...Rega!  A tight refined treble that isn't ever bright and a sound that is more 'forward' than the typical English speaker sound. 

Read more about these wonderful speakers on the Rega website here

Or this excellent review here

We are very excited to have these unique speakers in our midst!