Usp 1 a couple a months back I came across a mini review where someone said they compared a rega a centrance and a minimax and the minimax was the worst of the bunch and he didn't have much nice to say about it. Having just purchased a minimax I thought I would like to compare my minimax to the rega that he felt was so great, so I found a local dealer and took my minimax to compare. The dealer asked if I would by the rega if I thought it was better, I told him if there was a big improvement I would. Now the dealer calls the distributor to check stock and informs me he could get a new one in couple of days, so we listen to the rega through a rega integrated and a small pair of harbeths we went through the presets it sounded ok. The dealer took my minimax pulled the cable from the rega and put it in the minimax there was so much more separation between the instruments the sound stage was wider and moved forward about ten rows the only area that the rega was stronger was that the bass was deeper but not clean it just sounded muddy and all the instruments were pushed together after ten minutes he gave me the minimax back and asked how much it cost and said that was in lighting and never asked if I wanted to by the rega.i was expecting it to be very close it wasn't it was night and day, I assume everything was ok with the rega it was already in a long term demo setup, and changing the cable from one unit to the other was the only change made. My minimax is the original and stock with the only change being a pavane 12au7 tube.
