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At £720, this lands a touch under the £778 median for recent used listings and below the £726–£871 middle band’s upper half, so it reads as a fair-to-strong buy rather than an ambitious ask. For a well-kept used integrated from a respected British maker, that’s sensible money if the amp is genuinely clean and fully working.
The appeal here is straightforward: it’s a musical, grown-up amplifier with enough drive and refinement to suit serious systems, and it tends to hold its value because people buy it for long-term use, not novelty. If the unit has its original remote, packaging, and no repair history, that only strengthens the case; at this price, a tidy example is very much the kind of listing an enthusiast can move on quickly and feel good about.
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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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