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Rega Planar 6 Turntable RS Edition

Rega Planar 6 Turntable RS Edition

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3063

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NEW - Rega Planar 6 RS Edition Turntable

RB880 tonearm with custom stainless steel balance weight
Nd9 Reference MM cartridge factory-fitted as standard
CNC twin drive motor belt
Tancast 8 foam core plinth with HP laminate and metal finish
Dual-layer Opti-white clear float glass platter
Custom-matched Neo Mk2 turntable power supply
Twin Reference EBLT drive belts
24V low-noise precision synchronous motor
Double Brace Technology
Smoked dust cover supplied as standard

The Planar 6 RS Edition (Rega Special) incorporates many key engineering features from the higher-tier Planar 8 model while retaining the classic Rega design and dust cover. The ultra-lightweight, highly rigid plinth provides the perfect base for the precision RB880 tonearm, factory-fitted and professionally aligned with the award-winning Nd9 moving magnet cartridge.

Classic style, serious performance

The Rega Planar 6 RS Edition is built using a Tancast 8 foam core plinth finished with HP laminate and a brushed metal aluminum top layer with matching edging. This creates an ultra-lightweight, highly rigid platform ideal for mounting advanced components while reducing resonance. Like the standard Planar 6, the RS Edition includes a custom-matched Neo MK2 PSU and a hand-tuned 24V low-noise motor that drives the aluminum sub-platter. The movement is transmitted via an upgraded CNC twin drive pulley and two Rega Reference EBLT drive belts for improved accuracy and speed control. Completing the package, the precision RB880 tonearm (normally found on the Planar 8) is supplied mounted with the acclaimed Nd9 moving magnet cartridge.

Rega has pioneered the use of lightweight, rigid plinths over the years. Our exclusive ultra-lightweight Tancast 8 foam core with a rigid phenolic resin (HPL) top layer forms the foundation of the standard Planar 6 and higher-tier models. The Planar 6 RS Edition uses the same premium HPL combined with a striking brushed RS metal aluminum top layer with matching edging.

Designed using the latest 3D CAD technology, the RB880 is the result of nearly 40 years of tonearm design experience. It features an aluminum vertical bearing housing, redesigned sleeve, and vertical bearing shaft (both stainless steel) to improve mounting stability and overall rigidity. The advanced tonearm tube is designed with intelligent mass distribution to minimize potential resonance points.

The extreme stability achieved, combined with almost friction-free movement from hand-matched precision bearings, ensures maximum detail retrieval from vinyl. Rega low-capacitance phono cables with high-quality connectors are also included.

24V AC SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR

24V low-noise precision synchronous motor with PCB assembly, fitted with a CNC-machined twin drive aluminum pulley. Each motor is hand-tuned to the Neo Mk2 PSU to minimize vibration and ensure perfectly stable speed.

Each Nd9 cartridge is meticulously hand-built by skilled technicians. The Nd9 uses the advanced “fine line” nude diamond profile bonded to a boron rod cantilever for maximum detail. The profile uses a monocrystalline synthetic diamond with a minor radius of just 3 µm from above and 30 µm vertically, capturing even the smallest vinyl variations and ensuring exceptional detail. The design incorporates a new generator geometry with perfect symmetry for accurate channel balance.

The Planar 6 RS Edition plinth is further reinforced with the Double Brace system. Mounted where increased rigidity is needed (between the tonearm mount and main bearing), it forms a structurally sound “stressed beam.” This rigid design prevents energy absorption and unwanted resonance that could distort music. Using braces instead of a full top layer allows double-thickness phenolic resin in key areas, reducing mass absorption and unwanted energy transmission.

The Neo MK2 PSU is an advanced turntable power supply providing fine speed adjustment, an advanced anti-vibration motor circuit, and the convenience of electronic speed change. The Neo MK2 greatly reduces motor noise and improves speed stability and accuracy.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Tonearm: Hand-assembled RB880 precision
Motor: 24V low-noise motor
Platter: 16mm dual-layer float glass – Opti-white clear
Connectivity: RCA – Phono
Power: Via Mini DIN from Neo PSU
Dimensions (lid closed): 447 x 117 x 360 mm
Weight (turntable): 5.4 Kg
Neo MK2 PSU: 24V protected by resettable fuse
Power consumption: 7.2 W
Voltage: 24 V AC
Wall power supply (wallwart): Rega PS1 only
Speed control step size: 0.01 RPM

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Product Details

Reference 3063

Designer

The first Rega - A star is born

Roy was now working for Ford as a technical editor but spent most of his free time installing friend's hi-fi equipment and building loudspeakers to sell. He became a part time retailer and found he had to spend a ridiculous amount of time repairing new turntables before his conscience and common sense would allow him to sell them to others! Out of frustration and a strong feeling he could do better, the Planet turntable was born. Roy and a partner registered "Rega" (Tony RElph, Roy GAndy). In 1973 and for a couple of years, Roy stayed at Ford and made turntables in the evening, helped by his partners: mum (who agreed to help out for two weeks and stayed for fifteen years!) and a succession of lads. The first turntables were sold through Cosmocord in the UK and a year later under the Rega name in West Germany, Denmark and France.

Roy was now able to leave Ford; he collected a redundancy check and promptly blew it on a factory in Rochford. Soon after the partnership with Tony Relph split, Roy swapping his share of Rega. Terry Davies joined as Rega's financial administrator.

In 1975 the Planar 2 was developed and quickly took its place in the market as the finest budget turntable. In June 1977 HI-FI News and Record Review announced the Planar 3 saying "The complete unit is worth a look"! Rega's usual blaze of non-publicity.

By 1980 Rega employed thirteen staff, exported to twelve countries, had twenty UK dealers and there were those dreaded 'waiting lists', mainly by eager customers shop-hopping!

In 1980 Roy found an old mill (Park Street) in a residential area in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. The building had been deserted for twenty years and judging by the rot, seemed to have a millstream still running through it! Rega snapped it up for £30,000 and turned it into a compact but highly functional hi-fi factory, liberally painted bright green.

In 1983 after five years of dabbling and two years of intensive development, the RB300 and RB250 tonearms were produced. For ten years Rega had used Japanese and Danish manufactured arms on the turntables but after some searching Roy found a casting company prepared to work with him to develop an entirely new production method enabling the one-piece tube to be cast.

Rega won an international award for the RB300 casting, presented by Modern Metals 'awarded in open competition for excellence in the field of Aluminium Die Casting'. In their accompanying letter they wrote: 'we are still trying to figure out how you produce such a long cored hole so accurately'. This made up for never winning any prizes breeding budgies!

For five years, Rega sold a cartridge, the R100, made to specification in Japan. This was followed by the RB100, which was designed and developed by Rega. However, the cartridge had inevitable design limitations as it was being manufactured by an outside company.

In March 1988 the Bias and Elys cartridges went into production in house and sales exceeded 1000 in the first month, five times more than anticipated! The cartridges were a vital step on the way to a complete Rega system.

Completing the system...

In the summer of 1989 the Ela loudspeaker was introduced. Designed and developed at Rega, they were originally produced in Denmark but soon thereafter were manufactured in house.

In 1991, a period of dramatic expansion was heralded with the move into the world of electronics and the launch of two amplifiers, the Elex and the Elicit. The reason for producing these two amplifiers was simple; Rega was presented with a design it could not resist! Most importantly, the amplifiers fit into the company policy - which is to manufacture high quality, specialist hi-fi components that are reliable, consistent and sensibly priced. This development completed the Rega system.

A new factory was built in 1992 on the Temple Farm Industrial Estate in Southend-on-Sea under Roy's design and guidance to house the production of loudspeakers and amplifiers and to ensure room for further developments.

2014....

Over the past 40 years we have come a very long way. Now selling to more than 40 export markets and producing on average 2000 turntables alone every month, Rega now employ's almost 90 people in our purpose built 30,000 sq ft design and manufacturing facility in Essex, England.

Rega continues to grow and develop new products, all of which strictly follow those early Rega virtues of excellent build quality, long life and amazing value for money all backed up by a lifetime warranty against manufacture defects.

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