Rega Planar 2 Turntable

Company & Product Overview

Many of the best and most legendary audio companies that are still around today got their start in the classic stereo days of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Formed in a garage by a couple of friends who loved tinkering and were looking to come closer to the sound and experience in their own systems that you get from a live concert. You know the story.

Roy Gandy, the founder of Rega, was no exception. He started out modifying turntables with his audio buddies. His first turntable was the original Planar 2, which was introduced in 1975 -- just three years before Audio Advice was founded.

In fact, our founder, Leon Shaw, purchased his very first manual turntable in 1976. It was a Rega Planar 2!

Rega and Linn were two of the biggest players in the turntable industry in the 1970’s and both went against the common audio philosophy at the time. While many focused on the speakers and other components, Rega and Linn both argued that if you don’t get things right at the source, you’ll never recover. Decades later, most of the audio world now agrees with this philosophy.

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