Review: Rega Planar 1

hi-fi+ Chief Content Officer Tom Martin reviews the Rega Planar 1 Plus turntable.
2:07 - About the turntable
6:45 - Sound quality
7:36 - Soundstaging
9:34 - Treble and midrange
10:21 - Bass and treble balance
12:49 - Wrap
For more information about this product, click the link below:
www.rega.co.uk/products/planar-1
About Tom Martin:
Tom is a long-time audiophile. He began his reviewing career after acquiring the The Absolute Sound magazine in 1997 and then hi-fi+ magazine in 2002. He has worked closely with Harry Pearson and Robert Harley at TAS and with Roy Gregory and Alan Sircom at hi-fi+. Since Tom and his teams expanded the TAS and Plus platforms in the digital domain, he has served as Chief Content Officer.
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[@roquai06]

This will be my next turntable, thx for the review!

[@jbnavarrete]

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.

[@paulmorawczynski5994]

Thx for the review. This video does a great job describing all the important points about this particular turntable.

[@PEMAMETAL]

Which one is better the Rega Planar One or The AT-LPW40WN?

[@outrider1968]

Nice and honest review, Tom! Just a remark on the platter. This one is made of phenolic resin, not aluminum. Cheers from Rio!

[@user-zh6od2ic1n]

the stylus is not elliptical?

[@mhagain]

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.

[@PedroMiguel-if3ll]

$700?? You guys are being robbed by the dealers! Here in UK, the P1 cost is £300 and the P2 £500

[@videobimcom]

The new Rega Planer 1 have thin base, plastic arm and bad motor. I have one and would not recommend it.

[@obiektywny_turysta]

What do you recommend instead?

[@plumicon]

That is the Project TT not the Rega...

[@tcoakley2265]

Plastic arm - nonsense.

[@plumicon]

No rega has a plastic arm. You must be confused or in possession of a Chinese rip-off.

[@videobimcom]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2ilqJumpd-hpKMfeature=shared Made in the UK

[@EA-58]

For that money...buy a Pro-ject T1 analog.

[@user-zo4xq4ly9w]

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!