“It's one of the products that maybe the whole company is happiest with for many, many years,” Rega’s co-founder and owner Roy Gandy says of the Naia turntable, which the company previewed at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show in February ahead of its targeted release later this year. That’s quite the statement given the success of the numerous amplifiers and turntables the company has released in recent times, but it makes sense when you consider the 14-year journey that has led Rega to this release. The Naia is, after all, a production version and performance-equalling evolution of a dizzyingly ambitious, no-expense-spared, limited-edition turntable that, like many of life’s wonderful things – velcro, penicillin, viagra, The Rolling Stones – came about as a rather happy accident.
