Rega Planar 3 — 50th Anniversary Edition, Walnut
The Planar 3 has been the benchmark belt-drive at its price point for decades, and the 50th Anniversary edition marks fifty years of Rega building turntables in Southend-on-Sea, England — by hand, in-house, without outsourcing the parts that matter. The walnut veneer plinth is what separates this from the standard P3: a warm, natural finish that makes the table look like a piece of furniture worth leaving out rather than hiding in a rack.
Under the plinth, it's the same Rega engineering that made the P3 a reference: the RB330 tonearm, Rega's own precision-machined unipivot design built to tolerances that cost-reduced alternatives cannot match at any price near this one. The 24V low-noise motor drives a double-braced glass platter through a precision belt. The whole chassis is designed around minimizing mass where it adds nothing and maximizing rigidity where it does — a philosophy Rega has refined across five decades without abandoning the core idea.
This is the anniversary release for a buyer who knows what the Planar 3 is and wants the version made to mark the milestone. The walnut does not come back in standard production.
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For shipped orders, customers must notify us within 3 days of receiving the item to initiate a return. Once the item is received back in the same condition it was sent, we will issue a refund minus all shipping charges and a 5 percent credit card processing fee.
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The Planar 3 has been the benchmark belt-drive at its price point for decades, and the 50th Anniversary edition marks fifty years of Rega building turntables in Southend-on-Sea, England — by hand, in-house, without outsourcing the parts that matter. The walnut veneer plinth is what separates this from the standard P3: a warm, natural finish that makes the table look like a piece of furniture worth leaving out rather than hiding in a rack.
Under the plinth, it's the same Rega engineering that made the P3 a reference: the RB330 tonearm, Rega's own precision-machined unipivot design built to tolerances that cost-reduced alternatives cannot match at any price near this one. The 24V low-noise motor drives a double-braced glass platter through a precision belt. The whole chassis is designed around minimizing mass where it adds nothing and maximizing rigidity where it does — a philosophy Rega has refined across five decades without abandoning the core idea.
This is the anniversary release for a buyer who knows what the Planar 3 is and wants the version made to mark the milestone. The walnut does not come back in standard production.
8.5/10 - Great Condition.