I want to move from Rega Planar 6 help me to pick a new turntable

Touche’! Audiotroy hit it right on the head. The Phono pre amp is the gateway to great vinyl sound. Based on your current set of components I would put money into a bettter cartridge (Dynavector 10X5) and phonostage (Musicial Surroundings Nova). Upgrading your whole turntable so you can fiddle with azimuth settings makes no sense, the REGA has a very lively, energetic, engaging sound. Be happy with it, at this stage things just get more sensitive from here which can be a good or bad thing. Stay in the fun zone upgrade your REGA ...www.groovetracer.com

P.S. If I was going to find a table that would be a true upgrade without losing the great REGA sound is a J.A Michell Gyro SE....this table (with the Techno arm, a modded RB250) retains all the great aspects of the RP6 but elevates everything in terms of sweetness and detail with better dynamics and much greater sensitivity, Built like a battleship this table has a slew of adjustments and upgrades if thats desired.

Matt M

@mattmiller the new cartridge is the next step. In fact it all started with my cartridges adventure.

For quite awhile I had Ortofon Quintet Black S. I actually enjoyed it a lot. It actually handled surface noise better than most of cartridges I've heard, had very detailed sound at the same time. All of that ended after about 200 hours when cantilever just broke off.

I put my DL-103 and while it did not performed as good, it still was quite enjoyable.

Then I finally decided to get a better cartridge, about 3 weeks ago I've got ART9XA, which I actually enjoyed a lot. It had wider soundstage than Quintet and was as detailed as it was. I liked it a lot. But after 10 hours, one channel stopped working. I measured it and it had infinite resistance compared to the other one. I sent it back and soon will get the refund.

I put my DL-103, as mentioned before and started to think what cartridge to get. This is when I realized, to optimally set it up I want to have adjustable azimuth.

Phono upgrade is in the plans as well.

In fact I had Rega Aria v3. But during the move to a new house there was an accident that destroyed my $10k work computer, $3k guitar, some other staff and Aria too. Fortunately insurance covered all of that, but I still have not got a new preamp. But I compared parasound to Rega and it did not sound significantly worse. It actually sounds really good for a $500 preamp.

I was actually thinking of upgrading amp and maybe speakers, until I’ve done my taxes and the check I own to IRS crossed all my plans for the upgrades :)

the Rega P6 is amazing and I think better than most of the turntable mentioned on your wish list.