Listed below are new features found exclusively in the Saturn

• Two parallel connected Wolfson WM8740 dual differential Digital to Analogue converters improving the dynamic range and linearity.
• The master clock provided by a High stability low jitter crystal oscillator module.
• Substantial 60VA toroidal transformer with separate windings for audio, digital & display circuits.
• High capacity power supply's utilising Nichicon Fine Gold audio grade capacitors & fast rectifier diodes.
• Digital to Analogue converters utilising Solid Polymer de-coupling capacitors.
• Nichicon Fine gold audio grade capacitors by-passed by Evox film capacitors are employed in the signal path, and in the audio sensitive de-coupling positions in the Digital to Analogue converters
• Post DAC analogue amplifier and filter employ a Cascade pair discrete Class A amplifier using low base spreading resistance transistors.
• The Post DAC analogue amplifier and filter is supplied from a low impedance supply, giving a tighter & enhanced bass.
• Large double-sided PTH PCB with generous ground planes.

These improvements take sound performance far in advance of the already superior level achieved by the Apollo.

Automatic Disc Analysis and Error Correction

Most CD players just play your CD. You don't really expect anything additional. But the revolutionary Saturn CD player from Rega analyzes your disc before it plays it. Like the engine management system on a modern car, which optimizes the engine settings to ambient temperature, engine temperature, fuel quality, and other conditions, the Saturn will adjust itself to your CD in order to give optimal trouble-free reading and great sound quality. This process takes a few short seconds and the resultant musical improvements are well worth the wait.

Sam Tellig explains this feature in his Stereophile magazine review of Saturn's little brother, the Apollo. "Each time the user loads a new disc, the Apollo reads the whole of the CD's subcode data into memory, analyzes it and then selects the most appropriate of four levels of error correction. That way, the music is never overcorrected per se, and the integrity of the original datastream is kept intact to the greatest extent possible.

Transport with Three-point Mounting System

Just like the Apollo, the Saturn uses a new high quality transport mechanism, which incorporates a three-point mounting ball chuck. This has advantages over the magnetic puck type design. First, it presents the disc as flat as is possible to the laser, resulting in improved reading of the information on the disc. Secondly, because the motor has less mass to spin, the mechanism itself is under less stress and demonstrates better acceleration and braking performance.