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Honestly I have always asked the dealer to set up the arm.
If you go to YouTube, you can see a lot of videos on how to set up a rega arm. It should help.

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Leave it off mostly, except when you are cleaning around the TT, making adjustments, etc. Putting it on and off all the time entails some risk of accidental damage due to butterfingers.

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Ask your dealer to come. Because the Rp10 / Apheta 2/ Nu vista should really be impressive, on the Nd555 near level.
Apart more details from Chord / Mscaler, the other aspects should outperform your digital rig.
So something is not optimized in the Rp10 set up.
My feeling.

Of course, there are always some you will say that chord TT alone into a pc will outperform any vinyl rig



My Rega RP1, not much of it left as standard now. AT-VM95ML cartridge and a bit of a tweaked MF V-LPS stage and separate V-PSU.

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The dealer gave me a few tips, but I basically have the settings right. He did say they need around 100 hours to start sounding their best.

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I have the same setup with the Aria. Great sound!! For the price, very smooth TT combination.

Don’t forget to report in some days. And eventually ask the dealer to come quickly for a quick check. It would be more self assurance. ( pour la tranquillitĂ© de l’esprit)

That will not happen unfortunately, the dealer I bought it from is a four hour drive (one way) away. I do have a local dealer in the same city I live in that could possibly help me if needed however.

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Having owned both a Thorens 160 and a 126 (with SME 3009/R) as a student, I bought a Phonosophie P3 in the spring of 1990. It has a Thorens TP90 tonearm and a Benz Micro ACE H pickup.

I was living in Hamburg (where Phonosophie are situated) at that time and had just started working for a record company, so my vinyl collection was growing from a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands pretty fast. One day I went and bought this unique brown P3 (they normally come in black) together with a Nait 2 olive (which I also still own).

What I like about the P3 is that it sounds effortless and still makes me smile after more than three decades. My only investment in all that time is a new belt every now and then and a new Phonosophie power unit when the old one suddenly gave up some months ago.

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Lovely journey you describe and plenty of enjoyment to be had there I’m sure.
Still have my (now redundant) Thorens TD160, still have a mind to do a rebuild on it some day!

Some more images of the P3


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Very nice and a Pro-Ject Tube Box as phono stage . :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

I must admit that I do like Pro-Ject, no nonsense and good value .

Also quietly doing a Rega by staying on their base whilst introducing higher value components that you wouldn’t expect such as a CD transport and DAC at just under £4k combined

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Thank you Ian

This is actually the first phono stage I have ever owned. Before buying a 2nd hand SU last year, it was just the turntable and my Nait2 olive, which has a dedicated phono input.

I like the feeling this box can produce - it is about music. Compared to phono stages three or for times its price it certainly has its flaws, but it gets me finger snapping when I put on one of my favourite records. And that’s all that counts for me.

Rega RP3 turntable, Rega Exact cartrigde, Rega TT PSU power supply, Naim StageLine. I bought the turntable 8 years before my Naim, but the colors fit remarkably well (platter in Naim green :grinning:).

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Thanks for the comment & you are absolutely right: joy is the word.
I am still wondering how some people can do without music in their lives (except maybe for the noise from their car stereo).

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I have it’s slightly bigger brother, a very capable piece of kit (once set up correctly) , really good for turntables between a Rega 6 and a Linn Magik LP12

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My Clearaudio Universal tonearm developed a fault in the cable, such that nothing would come out of the right channel. It’s a direct-wired cable and the leads are hair thin, so not something trivial to repair. Fortunately, it’s still under its three-year warranty. I sent it back to the distributor and they confirmed my assessment.

They sent out a B-stock loaner/replacement arm, but when it arrived the two headshell leads had become separated in transit. Ugh. They felt so bad about it, they sent out a second arm with 2-day delivery. The happy outcome on that is I asked them if they had a black one instead of the silver I had originally (I thought I might like a change, and you don’t get something if you don’t ask). They sent me a brand new black carbon fiber arm as a warranty replacement. As a nice touch I found I already had a set of black cartridge mounting screws for the even stealthier look. :sunglasses:

Massive kudos to Musical Surroundings in the U.S for once again providing support to me that is second to none. BTW: I dealt with Ken Bowers, who previously worked for Needle Doctor and recently started with Musical Surroundings. He was awesome to work with on this. My dealer was in the loop too on all this.

The black carbon fiber arm looks totally badass, IMO.

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My Well Tempered Amadeus GT with a one week old Hana ML and one week old Stageline S along with the WT PSU. This TT is as simple as it gets yet very very easy to adjust azimuth, VTA, arm damping, levels
and the arm is so versatile with cartridges. Sounds as solid as my 301 as well. Cant see changing it any time soon.

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Interesting. It looks different from my P3. p3_aro6

This is the ARO/Naim P3PS version.

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Kuma, wow you still have your P3 . You power it with a Naim ps or a Phonosophie ps? I loved my P3 with an aro until it got replaced with the Bauer DPS.

Indeed Clemens plinth looks not just differen from the colour, but the form is different too.