What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

What fascinates me about the High End are the electric personalities behind it. Manufacturers typically invest so <I>much</I> of themselves in the products they make. It's a divine madness&mdash;they do it because they have to. They're <I>driven</I> to it with a real sense of mission and excellence. But God forbid you <I>criticize</I> any of their offspring...<I>ooo-la-la!</I>

I literally dropped everything when Rega's new Planar 25 turntable arrived a few weeks ago. I'd heard the 'table compared with the Planar 3 at designer Roy Gandy's house when I visited Rega last fall—see "Analog Corner" in the January '99 Stereophile—and was anxious to audition it in my own system and tell you what I heard.

I literally dropped everything when Rega's new Planar 25 turntable arrived a few weeks ago. I'd heard the 'table compared with the Planar 3 at designer Roy Gandy's house when I visited Rega last fall&mdash;see "Analog Corner" in the January '99 <I>Stereophile</I>&mdash;and was anxious to audition it in my own system and tell you what I heard.

I literally dropped everything when Rega's new Planar 25 turntable arrived a few weeks ago. I'd heard the 'table compared with the Planar 3 at designer Roy Gandy's house when I visited Rega last fall&mdash;see "Analog Corner" in the January '99 <I>Stereophile</I>&mdash;and was anxious to audition it in my own system and tell you what I heard.