Rega Planar 6 Turntable

Voted "Best Turntable £1000-£2000" 6 Years Running - What Hi-Fi 

Rega Planar 6 Turntable

The Planar 6 aims to reproduce your vinyl as accurately as possible. Rega has engineered every aspect of this turntable to extract as much detail from the vinyl surface as possible. Advanced materials and engineering solutions have been used throughout the design to ensure the greatest level of performance. The Neo PSU offers electronic speed change, advanced anti-vibration control and user-adjustable electronic fine speed adjustment only found on the RP10 until now.

Key Features

• Now available in White
• Super lightweight foam core plinth
• Custom dual-layer glass platter
• Patent-pending, ultra-low friction central brass hub
• Rega’s double brace technology for maximum rigidity and accuracy
• Handmade precision RB330 tonearm with custom stainless weight
• Exact (MM), Nd5 (MM) Nd7 Flagship (MM) Ania (MC) or Ania Pro (MC) cartridge factory fitted (optional)
• Hand-tuned Neo PSU for perfect speed control
• Milled aluminium sub-platter
• Lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects
• Handmade in the UK

The Rega Planar 6 is built around the massive success of the RP10 and RP8 turntables. It is the first new Rega turntable to be constructed with Tancast 8 polyurethane foam core plinth (an ultra-lightweight material developed for the aerospace industry). This material is sandwiched between a newly developed HPL (high-pressure laminate). HPL is incredibly thin whilst extremely rigid and is presented in Rega's stunning Polaris matt grey finished with high-gloss polymer black edge trim.

The Planar 6 now benefits from a machined single-piece aluminium sub-platter, a new 24v motor hand-tuned and matched to its own NEO power supply and a custom drive pulley fitted with Rega's upgraded drive belt as standard.

The Neo PSU uses the RP10 DSP (digital signal processing) generator built upon a high-stability crystal. The DSP generator will divide the accurate signal from the crystal to the exact frequency required to turn the platter at the selected speed. The DSP generator will also produce a near-perfect sinusoidal waveform to drive the motor. This, along with an efficient drive amplifier, generates a 24V AC balanced signal of less than 0.15% distortion, which is completely unaffected by any changes in the mains/line voltage and conditions. This then drives the turntable anti-vibration circuit, which is situated beneath the turntable. 

The new white finish comes supplied with a clear lid, dual layer clear glass platter, with White gloss plinth edges.

We at Hifi Gear have had a lot of experience with the Rega Planar 6 with a wide variety of cartridges. When fitted with Rega's own Exact MM cartridge, we found it to be the most well-rounded and fun moving magnet cart under £300. Effortless and easy playback especially when paired with one of Regas's own amps, my favourite being between the ELEX or ELICIT depending on your room and speaker requirements. If there is a cartridge that we stock and you'd like to hear it set up on our demo Planar 6, please contact us in the shop at 01432 354921 or email us at info@hifigear.co.uk 

Who is Rega?

Rega is a specialist hifi manufacturer based in Essex, UK and is renowned for developing and constructing some of the most highly regarded turntables (as well as cartridges and tonearms), electronics and loudspeakers available on the hifi market today. Rega was founded in 1973 and has honed its craft over many years of being a leading brand in every category it puts a product to.  

 Here's the unboxing video we did of the Rega Planar 6