What brand did you leave Rega for?

Way back in the day I sold my Rega Cherry P-9, some other gear and funded a SOTA TT with Vacum Platter and seismic platform suspension along with the best arm I could muster. A top notch front end was a priority. The difference was amazing! That was 20+ years ago and I have been happy ever since. In that timespan my table had a workout, has been sent back for rebuild, and sent back to be upgraded. The upgrade path SOTA provides to move up the line in TT models is something few manufacturers offer in this day and age. SOTA is still in business, many are not. Customer Service is great and it's made right here in the USA! If your final destination/desire is a Sota Cosmos sometime in this lifetime you will not be sorry.

Fisher-Price would be an upgrade from Rega.

I started with Basis and have upgraded in the line - I did start with a rega 300 tonearm and hated it, extremely overrated IMO. I started having problems and moved to a hadcock for not too much more money and the sound and tracking ability is no comparison to the rega.

Fjn04 - mighty fine rig you got there yo-self! :-).

I went from a P25 full decked out with upgrades to a LP12 that has had some upgrades as well. I like the table but am hesitating to do any more upgrades. I have been looking at other tables but no direction yet. Actually I waiting to see what Rega does on a (rumored) higher end table.