Rega Replay Turntable

The Rega Replay is a manual belt-drive turntable that brings Rega's hand-built English engineering to a $395 starting price, with a factory-fitted cartridge and a tonearm you set by hand in under a minute. It borrows the low-mass skeletal plinth thinking from Rega's flagship decks and shares the RB110 tonearm and Carbon moving magnet cartridge with the Planar 1, stripped back to the parts that move the music.

Key Features of the Rega Replay

• Skeletal plinth: A laminated, high-rigidity, low-mass design with a black MDF core, the same engineering approach Rega uses in the Planar 8, Planar 10 and Naia
• Hand-assembled RB110 tonearm: Patented ultra-low-friction bearings and an ergonomically redesigned headshell
• Factory-fitted Carbon cartridge: A Rega Carbon moving magnet, mounted and aligned at the factory, with a replaceable stylus
• Plug-and-play balance weight: The 111 g weight pushes onto the arm until it stops, so there is no tracking force or bias to set
• 23 mm phenolic platter: A higher-mass platter for a flywheel effect, with a custom two-sided mat
• 24V low-noise motor: A synchronous motor with a CNC-machined aluminum pulley and Rega's EBLT Advanced drive belt
• Performance brass main bearing: A factory-sealed precision bearing in a brass housing, patent pending
• Custom removable dustcover: A minimal cover that lifts away, with an anti-rotational device
• Ready in under a minute: Rega designed the Replay to be set up and playing in under 60 seconds

Rega Engineering, From the Start

The Replay is handmade in England and was developed over three years as Rega's new entry point into vinyl. Rega designed it with both first-time turntable owners and experienced vinyl enthusiasts in mind, keeping the low-mass, rigid construction its more expensive decks are built around.

Rega has built turntables in England since 1973, and the thinking behind the Replay runs straight through the range. The low-mass skeletal plinth echoes the Planar 8, Planar 10 and Naia, where reducing mass is the point rather than adding it. The Replay brings that philosophy to an entirely new price category for Rega.

A Skeletal Plinth That Does More With Less

The Replay's plinth is a laminated, high-rigidity, low-mass skeletal structure built around a black MDF core. Rega's reasoning is that heavier mass can transfer more unwanted energy, such as motor or bearing noise, into the rotating record, and its most ambitious turntables, the Planar 8, Planar 10 and Naia, follow the same approach. At the center sits a factory-sealed precision main bearing in a performance brass housing, with a patent pending on the design. The Replay stands on a new three-foot isolation assembly, and one of those three feet is the motor module itself.

The Hand-Assembled RB110 Tonearm

The Replay carries the RB110 tonearm, hand-assembled with Rega's patented ultra-low-friction bearings and an ergonomically redesigned headshell. Its 111 g balance weight is plug-and-play: you push it onto the back of the arm until it stops, and the tracking force is set. There is no arm to balance and no anti-skate to dial in. The bias is factory pre-set and is not adjustable, which is a deliberate choice to take the guesswork out of setup for a first-time owner.

A Factory-Fitted Carbon Cartridge

Every Replay ships with a Rega Carbon moving magnet cartridge already mounted and aligned at the factory, so there is no cartridge to install, align or wire. The stylus is replaceable when it wears, and a Carbon Pro upgrade stylus is available when you want to take the same cartridge body further. The output runs through a fixed phono RCA cable with an internal earth carried on the left channel.

23 mm Phenolic Platter and 24V Motor

A 23 mm phenolic resin platter gives the Replay a flywheel effect that helps hold speed steady, driven by a 24V low-noise synchronous motor through Rega's EBLT Advanced drive belt and a CNC-machined aluminum pulley. The motor module carries its own power switch, power input and ventilation, and doubles as one of the turntable's three feet. You change between 33 and 45 RPM by moving the belt on the pulley by hand.

What You Need to Play the Replay

The Replay is a pure turntable with no built-in phono stage and no wireless connectivity. To play it, you connect it to an amplifier or receiver that has a moving magnet (MM) phono input, or to a separate MM phono stage sitting between the turntable and your amp. It runs from an external Rega PS2 power supply, and the removable dustcover is included.

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Rega Replay Specifications