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RE: Rega Saturn Owners: How Has Sound Changed Over Breaking In Period?

The one I have is a second hand model a couple of years old, so is fully burned in. Personally I leave my system permanently switched on, it's essential for best sound quality and protects the components from current surge when switching on and off ;)

I left it on overnight and had a listen this morning- sounded even thinner to my ears. Oh dear. I had high hopes, and probably if I handn't had such a superb player before I'd be ecstatic! It definitely retrieves amazing amounts of detail, but somehow lacks the raw enjoyment of the VRDS I had. Mind you, it was heavily modded, so that's a bit unfair to the Saturn in some ways, BUT it did have that signature sound out of the box, the mods just have more of it.

Who knows how the Saturn would respond to mods? If I can't fix the VRDS, we'll find out, or I might use it as a transport with a very HQ DAC- seems like its strength is getting the bits off the disc, not neccessarily the analogue output stage (or possibly conversion?).


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