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Condition isn’t stated, so the £399 ask reads as a touch ambitious against your own comp set: it sits above the £359 75th percentile and well over the £329 median. It’s not wildly out of line for a desirable Brio, but it’s priced at the upper edge of the recent GBP market rather than in bargain territory.
That said, this is a genuinely well-regarded integrated: compact, punchy, and musically confident, with the kind of easy drive that suits a wide range of speakers and makes it a smart everyday amp. If it’s clean, unmodified, and ideally comes with the original box, remote, or proof of careful ownership, the premium is easier to justify; without those extras, I’d want a bit more room on price.
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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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