Rega 50x 33 and a Third 

A great example of a proper business, populated by proper people, all striving together. Not sold out and still making arguably the best affordable proper Hi Fi equipment in the world. Oh! and proper profit rewarding the team and being reinvested in the core endeavour. It can be done in these islands of ours!

Congratulations on 50 years! Great company, fantastic products. I still listen to my Planar 2 every evening, 40 years old and still runs perfectly.

I bought a Planar 2 for my 21st birthday in 1990. It still holds pride of place in my system. Everything else has been upgraded over the years, but ive never felt the need to change my deck. Ive added a neo and upgraded the cartridge, but thats it. As the system gets better, so does the turntable. I love it.

AllI can say is thank you rega, I absolutely love my rega 3. Its quality & luxury without me breaking the bank. It is what calms me after a days hard work, its clean lines fit in anywhere & finally it sounds perfect to my ears.

The only thing I would say, is the sound of a turntable, is governed by the quality of the mastering & pressing of an LP, certainly, Vinyl records can sound wonderful, better than digital, but on the other hand, a poor mastering & pressing, can sound dreadful. It's the same with digital. Regards Tweaker man

What a cracking story, wish it was much longer. The first turntable I ever bought was a Planar 2 back in '81 and it's one of my great regrets that I sold it and bought an LP12.

Just like to thank this man, what a fantastic company with amazing products, and what a great outlook and happy staff too, has to be the pinnacle of a successful business . I was lucky to pick up a Rega planar 2 from a friend a few years ago, am only just starting to appreciate what a lovely turntable it is hence the research on here.

Years ago, when I worked for Bowers & Wilkins, I spoke to Roy, as we were experiencing an issue with one of the amplifiers we sold. He couldn't have been more helpful to us if he tried. Congrats Roy and Rega on 50 years.

Love his comment some will cry listening to a piece of music,that's the standard any company should aim for,real emotion ❤

Rega rules. Quality product long life to. No crap just pure music. The boss is a legend.

I owned a lot of Rega stuff over the years... This year I replaced my beloved Rega Planar 3 (2016 model) by the P3 50th Anniversary and I'm so satisfied, for the asking price tag, no one can go wrong with a Rega TT. Everything in it's right place, plinth, motor, psu, arm, cartridge etc... A lovely TT to enjoy for years and years. Thanks to this company and Roy.

Wow, i am very impressed. You speak what i feel to be a universal truth, That analog music, vibrations captured on vinyl, is technologically superior. Digital will never be able to capture a waveform in its true state, it is just not possible as digital is angular bits and not rounded wave forms flowing in and around and through us.

My first decent turntable decades ago was a Rega (P3 I think). Loved it, moved on to Linn and the various upgrade paths, but I still rather hanker for the simpler days when I was less interested in the hardware and more interested in the vibrations coming out of the hardware........maybe I will revisit some Rega products soonish. Happy 50th from an earlier adopter!

50 very well deserved years. Many more to come. I still use my Brio amp and Planet CD player bought in the nineties and have heard no reason to change them yet.

I love your turntables and have been using one daily for years. Please put a dust cover on all your products even when they are playing. It's dusty at my place. Thanks.

Anyone else think that Roy Gandy looks just like Albert Lee?

He changed the rules of the game same as the legendary Linn Sondek LP12

Lovely philosophy... If only it happened more. While not a vinyl person it still baffles me that vinyl sounds as good as it does.

Happy 50 year anniversary Rega! Let's go for another good 50!

Great company with great products. I had an original Planer 3 in the late 70’s and wished that I had kept it but I succumbed to high pressure salesmen back then which is something that I would never do today. I recently bought a green grade P1 in gloss red to use as a dedicated mono turntable and must say it is the biggest bargain I’ve ever had in 50 years of being a hifi enthusiast. I also use a Fono Box mk5 and have a RB250 arm on another turntable and both are wonderful.

I wonder if my lovely new Rega Planer 3 will sound better standing on a Black and Decker Workmate than standing on the £185 worth of Rega Wall Bracket that Audioworks in Cheadle have set aside for me...... and will they be amused if I turn up requesting a A versus B demo 😀

Thanks !!! My favourite audio brand ❤ and indeed to short video 😉

50 years and they're still making new amps that still hum. My new Rega IO is buzzing and they refused to fix it. Not very fun.

Congratulations, Roy, for continuing to pursue your vision. Sorry the 928 is gone in favour of a Tesla but need must :))

Very interesting video. I could have watched an extended version even more 😎

Congratulations Rega! Much respect to Roy and his team.

A great explanation at the beginning of the record grooves containing modulations identical to the soundwaves that we want to capture and reproduce. He missed the opportunity though of pointing out this is why we call this technology analogue: the medium carries a signal analogous to the original.

I'd love to know what Roy thinks about the Technics and Linn tables ?

This is great. I have a Planar 3 from the 1980s (with one of the early RB300 tone arms) that my late partner bought for me. It must have played thousands of LPs and is still going strong 40 years later. I've just treated it and myself to the DC motor and Neo power supply, which has improved it no end. Thank you Roy.

I love my Rega P1. It’s such an elegant turntable.

Rega research is about music. Rega is for music lovers. Rega is best music factory in the world.

50 years of bringing musical enjoyment, thanks. I met this guy once 30 years ago, really nice interesting person.

If anybody at Rega is reading this. Do you remember Bog Griffin, Griffin Audio Brum. It was a super hi-fi shop on the Bristol Road. As a teenager in the 90's I used to love walking past the shop and going in from time to time. It had Regas and other British brands. I bought my Rega turntable from there and he sold me a used Cyrus one. He seemed genuinely concerned I got something good I could afford. It's great to see an example of manufacturing in this country. It would be very interesting to know what the boss of Rega thinks of James Dyson and his decision to make the products abroad. Perhaps turntables are much more complex than vacuum cleaners and pound for pound works out better to stay here. My Gandy would be great as an advisor to this government on some industrial training strategy.

Bought a planar2 in the eighties to replace a sansui sr222.just been licky enough to get a planar 3 anniversary,what a classy bit of kit,simply superb

What are the speakers at 5:07? The side looks like the rega rs10 but a much different feet structure and what looks like a bevelled front. The next rega reference speaker?

Top company .Got a Rega elicit r that had a problem .The shop said send it back and I the amp back in 2 weeks fixed properly . N0 arguing etc .A lot of companies could learn from Rega on how to treat their customers

Analog will never die although young people nowadays only use smartphones to listen music

What is the apeaker seen at minute 5:07 Looks like a new version of the RS10.

Great success story. Unfortunately, I still run into plenty of people in person and online who believe 70 to 90% of a turntable sound quality depends on the phono cartridge.

I bought a Rega Planar 2 turntable about 6 months ago and want to upgrade my system and buy an external phono preamp. My TT is currently hooked up to the "phono" input of my Denon AVR. Is there any particular reason I need to use a Rega phono preamp when there are so many other manufacturers of them?

Sir Roy, you are inspirational.

My 40 year old Planar3 was replaced recently with a new Planar 3, much more expensive but wow what a superb turntable. Roy talked about adding concrete to a platter in the early days but now they are making concrete speaker cabinets!

Loving my modded P25.. congrats to all.

hopefully i can buy rega in the not so distant future🙏🙏🙏

a brilliant story of UK research and innovation - and so inspiring - and superb products - this is what other parts of the UK economy really ought to look like -- politicians take note! My Planar 3 from 1988 is still going strong ...

Well done Rega👍

I love my REGA PLANET CD player

Makes me want to work at Rega. Makes me want to buy one too !!!!

I'm the 333 like, LOL

My system that I gradually put together is composed of both vintage devices and newly ones i.e., a good ol' Marantz receiver model 2230 + a newly upgraded Thorens turntable TD 115 with the Exact cartridge (the yellow one) from Rega + a Rega 'new' phono preamp model ARIA that are highly qualitative products in my book.

Roy is driving a Tesla

Rega are a fantastic achievement. Many thanks _ 👏👏👏

Great British company Rega. I have the Elicit mk5 amp. Best amp I’ve owned and I’ve had more then a few of them 😊

So interesting, over the years i've enjoyed tweeking about with turntables, when they are set up correctly the music sounds amazing, my love of Vinyl has grown as i've enjoyed setting up & enjoying music passages with the decay & attack of instruments. Some of my Mono records sound amazing too from 1950's. As a Electronics Engineer too my Hobby brings new Pleasure in the music & satisfaction in tweeking. In the Mid 1970's my Dad had a GEC music centre which was staple listening, many years later & put records on my hi fi that were played on the same system enjoying greater much greater detail.

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I had no idea Rega had so much about them

What a great engineering company and I just brought my first Rega turntable which I get excited every time I turn it on.

I love rega equipment I’ve had most of it there dac is the best I’ve ever had

Amazing products Roy ,.I’ve,e had the Mira amp since 2006 ,it,s never let me down ,now I’ve got the rp2 turntable I,m a very happy man .Thank you & all your staff for first class quality products .Happy New Year 2024 .😊

Wonderful video! Thanks Roy for hours and hours of life saving, pure joy!

Happy 50th! Many more years for you, and Thank you!

P3, then P6, then P8 user here, I like Rega's philosophy 👍👍

I started moving over to Rega products 3 years ago. First a P3 to play vinyl that had laid dormant for 20+ years. Then an amp and the new found detail encouraged me to buy a Saturn CD player. Grinned from ear to ear as I noticed detail in tracks that had previously been unheard. Best of British. Here's to your next 50 years!

Great sounding turntables! You'll sell loads more if the Rega 1 etc had electronic speed change.

Great to hear the founder himself. Wonderful artefact this line of turntables, the best price-quality ratio still there is around the world. BR, one devoted and upgrading customre for 30 years now. Though have several other manufacturers' turntables too... being a hifi aficionado as well.

What is the birming oil it looks like Iso 75? Why do you use knob of grease on the tip of the spindle graphite. You can actually raise the spindle a mm or 2mm it's not actually touching the bottom. You'll need to hole near the bottom on the side of the housing bearing and use a grub screw because you'll need it to remove the bearing spindle otherwise you'll get a vacuum

I respect this company, primarily because of their products and position in the industry, until I saw this video, now I think even a bit better of them. I watched the video because I have a modified rega arm, and am strongly considering a rega cartridge primarily because of the engineering which includes three screws that mount the cartridge in the correct position, that rega uses. So I was watching the video with some attention to the cartridge mounting, and noticed some cartridges were affixed with the Rega three screw system, some with the industry standard two. I suppose, if rega noticed, it was an attempt to demonstrate that the products are universal in scope, to the audio freaks who notice details to some degree of obsession. Commenting for a friend...............

Rega top drawer company happy birthday and hats of Roy and all the people at rega❤️❤️❤️

Rega are a great product… I never owned one but I do admire them… I loved my Roksan Xerxes😂

Great turntables indeed ! Too bad they don't do a better job vetting their dealers in the USA so I am no longer a Rega customer because of a dealer.

What are the curvy floor standers in Rory’s office?

Outstanding success for 50 year's .

Un grand merci pour votre extraordinaire recherche de la perfection et pour votre carrière !!!! Bravo !!!

I have a rega fono mk 3 phono stage . Its nice

Dommage qu'il soit impossible de correspondre avec l'entreprise directement .

No, they are NOT an 'exact' copy (0:55). Everything has tolerances.' A little bit of a God' (1:26)- telling. More faith than fact, admitted. Mechanical sound reproduction is fraught with inaccuracy. Like the dancing bear, it is not that it can dance well, but that it can dance at all. 'There was a lot of hum' (2:20)- he actually means rumble. This is mechanical noise from the motor bearings, not the hum which is electrical (mains breakthrough). Amazing that he made this error, more than once (so not a slip of the tongue). 'Technologically superior' - demonstrably false. For every parameter involved, digital sound storage is measurably more accurate. And never forget, your hearing is digital (individual hairs are activated by different frequencies). Even if a turntable/arm/cartridge were 'perfect' the reproduction would not. Cutter/needle geometry differences, tracking error (the cartridge in a pivot arm varies in the angle to the groove), and several other errors mount. Using vinyl for sound reproduction is like using a horse and cart for transport- possible, perhaps even fun, but not the best by almost any measure.

You know, no matter how much work and engineering goes into a quality turntable, when I see one that has a straight-shaft tone arm, it reminds me of "kiddie" record players of the past. Tone arm design is a long slow process, but many seem to ignore technological advances. For instance, I have a Capehart record changer from 1947 and it has a metal, tubular "J" style tone arm, with a removeable head shell. They weren't audiophile in any way but were advanced record changers which would play both sides of a record held in a magazine holding up to 16 records, but only one record was on the turntable at a time. That was the late-40's in the U.S. Then as audiophile came into the picture, a U.S. company named Empire became famous for it's audiophile single play belt-driven turntables and it's cartridges. They often used tubular metal "J" style tone arms. There were many U.S. turntable and record changer manufacturers, including those which catered to the commercial phonograph industry, like radio stations. When Technics entered the U.S. market with their turntables which were excellent to use both commercially and for audiophile concerns, with their aluminum "S" style tone arms with interchangeable head shells, the U.S. commercial turntable manufacturers took notice. To keep in the game, they started installing "J" and "S" style tonearms with removeable and interchangeable headshells. After realizing the advantages of better tracking and the convenience of interchangeable head shells, many commercial turntables were retrofitted. These new style tone arms had more mass but could be adjusted for lighter tracking, extending the lives of the records. Because vibrations travel best in a straight line, the vibrations produced by staying at the cartridge, which gave a brighter sound. Even without anti-skate features, the retrofit tone arms skipped and stuck less. It just amazes me how many audiophile turntable manufacturers ignore advances made in the past. Atleast one manufacturer has caught on, Pro-Ject, which now offers "S" style tone arms.

Why vinyl is better simple because we are made for hear analogue not digial.

Bought my first rega3 in 1983. Upgraded the tonearm 4 times . Now p7/rb1000. Next up p8/rb3000.

Much respect! 50 years of not following the mold and applying solid inquiry, innovation, and engineering! Does anyone else draw parallels between Messrs Gandy and Gordon Murray in terms of British engineering excellence and philosophy?