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Yes, probably made by Hanpin, but they have refined their production over the years.

The real comparison is to Crosley and the entry level AT 120 IMHO, and there it becomes a clear winner, but once used is thrown into the mix, it's anyone's game.

I will tell you my bizarre Rega experience of the last year. I had a Rega RP6 with Exact as a backup table to play thrift store records. It was my second RP6, having sold the first one because we never really got along. When I sold the Linn's and SOTA, the RP6 became my primary table, but I just did not like something about it. Kind of a pervasive darkness that I remembered from my first RP6 and my RP3.

I have owned Regas since the early 1980s and am a real fan, trying to always have at least one around. At any rate I saw a NAD 533 for $100 and thought I would buy it to harvest the RB250 tonearm off of it for an idler project that I am working on. The NAD 533 is an old style Planar 2 with an MDF platter rather than the thin glass of the Planar2.

You probably know the rest of the story, I preferred it by miles to the RP6, not that anyone else would. Sold the RP6 and bought the heavier glass platter of the Planar 3, as well as the metal end stub from an RB 300 arm. The final piece was that I had a Rega tungsten counterweight and some spacers in my parts drawer. For short change it is great. As it happened, a friend offered me his RB250 arm with Origin Live end stub and counter weight as well as Incognito Cardas retire and an Origin Live VTA adjuster. That arm is a step up from the original one, but I could happily live with the other. Now that I have an extra RB250 I'm looking for a more ambitious table with a Rega cut out.

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