Rega Apollo-R - Manual (Page 3)

INTRODUCTION
To the best of our understanding, there have only ever been five large multinational
companies with the technology and knowledge base to develop the remarkably complex
operating software for CD players. Development of this software and chip-sets to operate
CD transports was generally curtailed in the 1990’s. After this time all development effort
was directed towards the design of DVD players and other advanced formats.
Rega and other specialist Hi Fi manufacturers were totally reliant on companies like Sony
and Philips to supply transports and their operating chip-sets. In 2003 Sony stopped supply
and sent the specialist Hi Fi industry into a flurry of activity in search of feasible
alternatives. Many manufacturers were able to resource their supply from Far Eastern
companies.
Rega worked hard to locate a British software company who were developing a totally new
disc operating system. A system, which was highly advanced, even in the early development
stages.
Rega was the only manufacturer to develop the unique new disc operating system. Due to
ever increasing computer processing power and memory capacity it was possible to build
in an enormous increase in memory capability. This allowed the data retrieval to meet the
original CD 'Red Book' specifications without compromise to the musical performance. All
previous chip-sets were unable to achieve this due to their limited memory and signal
processing capacity.
Rega's new British designed chip set contains over 20MB of memory with 32 bit digital signal
processing capacity and Rega has used this computing power to give a far greater musical
performance.
We hope you enjoy this very special CD player; we have spent a very long time creating it,
drawing on all of our nearly 40 years of experience in specialist Hi Fi manufacturing.
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