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Against the obvious alternatives around £772, this Rega sits right on the money: with a median used price of £773 and a 25th percentile of £740, it’s a fair buy rather than a steal, but still comfortably in the sensible zone. It only starts to look pricey once you get above about £871, and this listing is nowhere near that.
That’s a good place to be for a well-regarded integrated amp with Rega’s usual strengths: clean drive, lively timing, and enough refinement to make a serious system feel more immediate and engaging. If it’s genuinely tidy and complete, this is the kind of piece that tends to reward long-term ownership, so the main question is simply condition and provenance rather than value panic.
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Rega Research, founded in 1973 in Essex, England, by Roy Gandy and Tony Relph, emerged from Gandy's lifelong passion for vinyl playback. A Ford engineer and music enthusiast, Gandy built his first turntable, the Planet, in his spare time, blending the founders' surnames to create the Rega name. From humble beginnings in a derelict mill, the company quickly gained traction with early models like the Planar 2 and Planar 3, establishing its heritage as a British hi-fi pioneer dedicated to precision engineering and hand-assembly.
Rega specializes in turntables and tonearms, its cornerstone products, but has expanded into a full ecosystem including cartridges, integrated amplifiers like the Elicit and Brio, phono stages such as the Fono, and speakers like the Ela series. While early efforts included loudspeakers and electronics from the 1980s onward, the brand prioritizes vinyl-centric components over headphones, DACs, or cables, all designed in-house for musical fidelity using specialist materials and tight tolerances.
Rega holds a revered position in the high-end hi-fi market as a niche boutique icon, prized by audiophiles for affordable, lifetime-quality performance that emphasizes music over gimmicks. Globally exported to over 50 countries from its Essex facility employing more than 150, it remains a symbol of British ingenuity, with turntables like the Planar series securing enduring loyalty among vinyl revivalists.
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