Rega turntable - positive ID?

Hi all...

I've had a second-hand Rega turntable for quite a few years now
and would dearly love to positively ID what model it is...

The ID sticker on its base states:

Serial No: 10474
Type No: FA 9159
Voltage: 220/250 50Hz

For an idea of what she looks at, a quick search on google.com
provides the following links:

http://www.nakedresource.com/gallery...a_planet_3.jpg

http://www.nakedresource.com/gallery...a_planet_1.jpg

Although the arm fitted looks like an Acos arm...

Any pointers greatly appreciated...

Kind Regards,

Peter D Evans

Off-topic post - should be in uk.rec.audio.vinyl

"o r b s c u r e DDJ" wrote in
message
Hi all...

I've had a second-hand Rega turntable for quite a few years now
and would dearly love to positively ID what model it is...

The ID sticker on its base states:

Serial No: 10474
Type No: FA 9159
Voltage: 220/250 50Hz

For an idea of what she looks at, a quick search on google.com
provides the following links:

http://www.nakedresource.com/gallery...a_planet_3.jpg

http://www.nakedresource.com/gallery...a_planet_1.jpg

Although the arm fitted looks like an Acos arm...

Any pointers greatly appreciated...

Kind Regards,

Peter D Evans

Arny Krueger wrote:

Off-topic post - should be in uk.rec.audio.vinyl


Which bit of the ura charter does this fail, to be regarded as off topic ?

Though you are right in that the original poster stands a better chance
of getting a helpfull response in the new group.

--
Nick

Hi Nick...

Though you are right in that the original poster stands a better
chance of getting a helpfull response in the new group.

....my ISP is currently not accepting new newsgroup additions to
their roster, hence my posting the enquiry here...

cheers,

Pete

...my ISP is currently not accepting new newsgroup additions to
their roster, hence my posting the enquiry here...

.....after a search via google.com.... I have been able to gain newsgroup
access to uk.rec.audio.vinyl using the free news server:

news.cs.tu-berlin.de

cheers,

Pete

....after a search via google.com.... I have been able to gain newsgroup
access to uk.rec.audio.vinyl using the free news server:

news.cs.tu-berlin.de

....albeit, I've now found that although you can view messages posted, you
cannot post yourself (

....the search continues...

Pete

Perhaps people should admit that the purpose of vinyl-related posts
in a general-interest newsgroup with an official vinyl-only counterpart
is trolling.

The purpose of my original post is as per the subject... to ID an audio
turntable... read my previous posts in this same thread as to why I didn't
/can't post in uk.rec.audio.vinyl

Pete

On 21 Jul 2003 14:39:30 GMT, Andrew Walkingshaw
wrote:

In article , Arny Krueger wrote:
Perhaps people should admit that the purpose of vinyl-related posts in a
general-interest newsgroup with an official vinyl-only counterpart is
trolling.

Picking a fight for the sake of it, which is what this looks like, is
trolling.

Now you know why some of us maintain killfiles for this group :-)

I don't see what's so confrontational about asking a perfectly
reasonable question, which is what the OP did. Perhaps you should
investigate a newsreader which can kill articles based on keywords in
content.

I've only started reading this group recently, but it's desperately sad
that it's almost impossible to make a post here asking for information
without inflaming either the pro-vinyl or anti-vinyl camps. :-(

The *really* sad thing is that there is a tiny number of individuals
(one or two from each "side" of this largely non-existent debate) who
take any post mentioning the word "vinyl" or the acronym "CD" as an
excuse to exercise their own particular set of prejudices (which
normally take the form of:

pro-CD: "CD is technically better therefore anyone who prefers vinyl
is wrong"
pro-vinyl: "I prefer vinyl so it must be technically superior to CD")

(IMO, both stances are equally asinine)

As Nick Gorham said in his earlier response, there is nothing in the
charter of this newsgroup that precludes discussion of issues related
to vinyl and vinyl reproduction. The uk.rec.audio.vinyl group gives
another (and more specialized) forum for such discussion, but its
creation does not alter the fact that issues related to vinyl are
entirely on topic for this group.

Of course, comments suggesting that vinyl is in some magical way
technically superior to CD are likely to get a more robust response
here than on uk.rec.audio.vinyl ;-)

Julian


--
Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

"Andrew Walkingshaw" wrote in message


In article , Arny Krueger wrote:

Perhaps people should admit that the purpose of vinyl-related posts
in a general-interest newsgroup with an official vinyl-only
counterpart is trolling.

Picking a fight for the sake of it, which is what this looks like, is
trolling.

You think I'm doing this for the fun of it? No, I'm trying to deal with the
problem of vinyl-related trolling of this general-interest newsgroup.

First we hear all this hype about the development of a vinyl-only group and
then we see more and more posts in the general-interest newsgroup that are
only of interest to a vinyl-only group. The vinyl-only group obviously is
not meeting people's needs for trolling the general interest group.

I don't see what's so confrontational about asking a
perfectly reasonable question, which is what the OP did.

Trolls don't have to start out as being confrontational. Given the
aggressive digital bashing that goes on around here, all we need is a fairly
innocent question about vinyl. Our usual list of suspects will take care of
the rest.

Perhaps you
should investigate a newsreader which can kill articles based on
keywords in content.

I thought that the uk.rec.audio.vinyl group was going to be some kind of a
solution.

I've only started reading this group recently, but it's desperately
sad that it's almost impossible to make a post here asking for
information without inflaming either the pro-vinyl or anti-vinyl
camps. :-(

Agreed. One reason why is that the pro-vinyl camp manages to turn just about
any mention of vinyl into an anti-digital flame.

Hi Richard...

Sorry to see all the responses that bear little relationship to your
question.

Having been a lurker here for a couple of years it was to be expected...
If there were indeed a charter or the question did not refer to audio, then
I could understand the response and stand corrected... The politics of it
all are way above my head so I'm not gonna get involved in any
arguements....

The picture shown is clearly a Rega turntable , the strange platter
was a feature of the early decks (1970s) the one pictured has an
updated Rega RB300 installed rather than an original Rega arm
with a curved arm tube. No doubt a true expert will be able to tell
you the difference between a Rega Planar 2, Planar 3 and the Rega
Planet which I think preceded them but which I have never seen.

I've narrowed it down to it possibly being a Rega Planet turntable as
per this link, but my deck features what looks like an Acos arm...

http://tinyurl.com/hkr5

but my deck features a Rega Acos mark in the bottom right-hand
corner as per these links...

http://tinyurl.com/hkr8
http://tinyurl.com/hkr9

.....all very confussing!!

Surely as Rega still make turntables an e-mail to them might get you
some info ?

I've contacted them and even with the deck serial number they are having
problems with ID'ing it!

Anyway, thanks for the positive response - very much appreciated...

Kind regards,

Pete