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Here we have my Well Tempered Amadeus GTA deck. It is the expensive version with an extremely heavy aluminium plinth, Well Tempered tonearm and extremely low-mileage Rega Ania moving coil cartridge. It looks like it has never been out of the box - mint condition. It is extremely rhythmical and sounds just right when you walk into the room. It comes with huge, original packaging, an excellent manual, tracking force gauge, spare bearing fluid, spare tonearm fluid, spare tonearm counterweight and a partridge in a pear tree! WT do not make a conventional hinged lid, so the white disc is used to pr... read more
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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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