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Bookshelf Speaker with Stunningly Natural Sound
Become immersed in the stunningly natural sound of the Rega Kyte bookshelf speaker, which is meticulously designed to deliver the true Rega sound at an affordable price. Using Rega's own ZRR high frequency unit and a handmade pair of Rega MX-125 bass-mid drivers, this compact bookshelf speaker is designed to complement any hi-fi or audio system.
The Kyte loudspeaker system allows you to experience the true voice of Rega components as well as excelling with other high-quality audio components. The Kytes are hand assembled in-house using Rega's unique design phenolic resin cabinet. Internally they feature ceramic plates and carefully engineered cross bracing developed to make the cabinet extremely stiff. This prevents unwanted resonances interfering with the accurate output of the drive units and directly improves both dynamics and the bass performance from the speaker.
The Kytes are easy to position and are supplied with an optional foot to allow for various positioning, giving you greater flexibility. A custom designed stand mount adaptor is available (optional, sold separately) to allow use on a wide variety of third party stands.
It's All About R&D in Pursuit of Exceptional Sound
Rega has always questioned the marketing and science surrounding turntables. Experiments and research have allowed Rega to debunk commonly held beliefs and use real engineering to produce world-class sound quality at sensible prices. However, the loudspeaker market is very different, because a valid scientific and engineering discipline exists, which in turn has created hundreds of competitors in the loudspeaker marketplace.
The commercial success of many loudspeakers depends on powerful marketing, eye-watering advertising budgets, and financial inducement to retailers. The funds that most loudspeaker companies would spend on marketing Rega has put into research and development to create totally unique phenolic cabinet constructions, its own high frequency unit, and a bass/midrange driver incorporating a four- layer voice coil. Rega even manufactures and winds its own crossover components in-house.
Why a Phenolic Cabinet?
So why does Rega use a phenolic speaker cabinet instead of more traditional materials and design? Historically the accepted perception of a loudspeaker was a rectangular shaped wood veneered cabinet to complement household wood furniture. The market prefers loudspeakers to be furniture and since the '90s European manufacturers were left with the choice of Far Eastern manufacturing or inflated prices for home built wooden cabinets.
However, styling perceptions have changed in recent times and there has been a wholesale investment in modern molding shapes and the use of functional materials. Injection molded plastic loudspeaker cabinets are not new but flexible molded plastic has been reserved for the PA world or for small desktop loudspeakers where convenience and portability were a priority over sonic performance. This more recent domestic acceptance of non-wood functional cabinet shapes has allowed Rega to achieve a long-term dream.
Rega has made a massive investment into injection molding of stiff thermoset phenolic resin and collaborated with a British company to achieve it. The natural stiffness of phenolic resin is a big advantage which has been further enhanced with ceramic plates and a complex internal cross brace structure. This unique cabinet construction has been achieved at one third of the price of other British-made quality loudspeakers.
