The standard carbon cartridge is ok. It’s not an elliptical one and can benefit with an upgraded one. A different cartridge can address the brightness in sound.
It's not really correct to say that Rega think VTA is unimportant. The people at Rega are engineers so they understand tolerances, measurements and particularly tradeoffs. In this case they understand that the tradeoff of providing VTA would be a less rigid assembly, but that keeping the assembly rigid provides more benefit to the sound than VTA. This is with their design, of course.
Let's see ... no real platter mass anywhere, plinth cost about $2 to make (okay, it's a sandwich, so $3) stock belt, subplatter molded from magic synthetic material, spherical stylus on a bargain-basement cart, the arm looks to be made of plastic, and it's only $775? Almost as nice as a U-turn. What a bargain!
This will be my next turntable, thx for the review!
Thx for the review. This video does a great job describing all the important points about this particular turntable.
The standard carbon cartridge is ok. It’s not an elliptical one and can benefit with an upgraded one. A different cartridge can address the brightness in sound.
the stylus is not elliptical?
Which one is better the Rega Planar One or The AT-LPW40WN?
Nice and honest review, Tom! Just a remark on the platter. This one is made of phenolic resin, not aluminum. Cheers from Rio!
It's not really correct to say that Rega think VTA is unimportant. The people at Rega are engineers so they understand tolerances, measurements and particularly tradeoffs. In this case they understand that the tradeoff of providing VTA would be a less rigid assembly, but that keeping the assembly rigid provides more benefit to the sound than VTA. This is with their design, of course.
$700?? You guys are being robbed by the dealers!
Here in UK, the P1 cost is £300 and the P2 £500
even at 300 pounds, its too expensive
Let's see ... no real platter mass anywhere, plinth cost about $2 to make (okay, it's a sandwich, so $3) stock belt, subplatter molded from magic synthetic material, spherical stylus on a bargain-basement cart, the arm looks to be made of plastic, and it's only $775? Almost as nice as a U-turn. What a bargain!
spot on!
The new Rega Planer 1 have thin base, plastic arm and bad motor. I have one and would not recommend it.
What do you recommend instead?
That is the Project TT not the Rega...
Plastic arm - nonsense.
No rega has a plastic arm. You must be confused or in possession of a Chinese rip-off.
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Made in the UK
For that money...buy a Pro-ject T1 analog.