Rega Cambers

Posted by: Don Braid on 26 October 2000

A friend has a chance to buy a pair of used Rega Camber speakers. Anybody know them or use them? Opinions urgently requested.

Don

Posted on: 27 October 2000 by Don Braid
No wonder there aren't any replies. The Rega Camber, it turns out, was first distributed only in Canada by one company which went broke, then taken over by Camber. Now the speakers are long out of production and no spare parts have been available for years. The speakers would be mostly unknown outside Canada.

Don

Posted on: 27 October 2000 by David Antonelli
Don,

That's a shame. there are a lot of interesting little speakers that appear and disapear in Canada. I am told this is because teh research council provides funding for pioneering corporations with new technologies and thus it's easy to start up a small company and make speakers with some new technological innovation. Many of these companies don't go far because of distribution problems, but there are a lot of gems out there. Numen makes pretty nice speakers. Mine were a no-brainer after hearing them beside NHT 2.3, Naim Intro, AE, and other speakers in the sub-3K region. My albions beat them in terms of speed and acuracy, but NOT romance and delivery of the "big" musical picture. There are a lot of things about those numens I miss. The bass was a bit wooddy and smudged, but the trebble was quite a bit more fluid and engaging that the more tight and hyper-articulate trebble of the albions. They also don't get shouty at high volumes like the albions do.

dave

Posted on: 28 October 2000 by Mike Sae
That's easily the wierdest thing I've ever heard in the world of hi-fi. A Rega speaker available only in Canada.

Also, I tend to concur with Mr. T, I don't think people should be forced to use their real first and last names just to appease one or two (or three) people.

[This message was edited by Mike S on SUNDAY 29 October 2000 at 07:37.]

Posted on: 28 October 2000 by Don Braid
quote:
That's easily the wierdest thing I've ever heard in the world of hi-fi. A Rega speaker available only in Canada.

I think they were a British design - probably a well-known speaker over 'ome - licensed to be built in Canada. They don't sound half bad, actually, although it's impossible to get parts.

Don

Posted on: 29 October 2000 by P
Well said - here hear - I heartily agree with you

The really good thing about using a nickname,nom de plume or your first name only on this forum is that the self appointed arbiters of etiquette don't reply to your posts - shame eh

Sorry to hear of your loss - they must have been very fit burglars if it was $32k worth of Naim Kit.

Regards P.

Posted on: 29 October 2000 by Jonathan Gorse
Mr T,

I am very sorry to hear of your break-in and theft of your kit.

I am one of those who would prefer people to use some kind of human name because it does help build a bond between us. I would have thought that unless you have a very unusual name it would be pretty unlikely anyone could track you down just from for example 'Brian Walton or Brian W' from Canada - there must be thousands of those.

I have spent ages trying to find a long lost school pal called Simon Taylor in England and have had no luck at all - there's just too many of them.

I think the security risk is overestimated and a burglary is far more likely to occur because somebody walks up your path and peers in through your window and sees your expensive kit but at the end of the day it's up to you if you want to let paranoia get in the way of human interaction.

Jonathan