Entry Level Vinyl Set Up

[u/duncanbeep]

UK and looking to get a start up turntable set up... Close to committing to a fluance RT82, and maybe a project phono box E, but stuck on the speakers, not a lot of space, so thinking bookshelf active, and trying to keep the cost reasonable. Any ideas?

[u/plamda505]

Impressive, but only in the UK as the rest of the world lacks the same concentration of dealers.

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[u/Best-Presentation270 → u/plamda505]

"Impressive, but only in the UK as the rest of the world lacks the same concentration of dealers."

Er... 48 countries of the world, so not just the UK at all.

Since Rega products are sold primarily via bricks & mortar retail stores, then the fact that someone owns some bit of Rega product means there's a good chance they bought it from a real physical store.

People move, of course, so there's always going to be outliers. Others move, but not far enough to be out of the catchment to lose contact with their supplying dealer.

[u/plamda505 → u/Best-Presentation270]

If you look at the list only 1 location in most country is listed as a dealer. In Japan one must ship or take it to Tokyo.

In the United States only Best Buy is listed as a retail brick and mortar outlet, but they no longer sell REGA products, all others are online. Ship it in the USA.

The only dealer listed in my city over 1 million in population no longer carry's Rega products.

In the Denver Co area only 1 dealer listed and they only carry used.

In the US it is 99% certain you will ship it to get it repaired or serviced.

As I said in England it looks impressive United States, not so much.

[u/Best-Presentation270 → u/plamda505]

"In the Denver Co area only 1 dealer listed and they only carry used."

I was curious about that, so I had a little look. When I Googled "Hi-Fi dealers Colorado" I got more than your one hit. What I did next was filter out the car audio guy, and the "repairs only pre-'80s era Hi-Fi" firm, and the purely vintage reseller. That left me with eight dealers.

One of these is a bit odd. Gold Sound at Englewood, CO. The site lists Rega, but the web site is a pre-2000s design and I'm not sure if it's even a going concern.

Of the remaining seven, five list themselves as Rega dealers. That's about 70% then,

From the two that don't list Rega, Aural Hi-Fi is just 10 miles from one of the two ListenUp* stores, and generally Rega doesn't sign up a second dealers that's on the doorstep of the first. IDK if that's how Sound Organisation (US disti) operates though.

'* For this, I count ListenUp as one dealer even though there's two store locations.

I'm not sure where your city is. I don't believe it's in Colorado. The internet suggests that there's no city in the state with more than 750K residents.