Rega Planar 3 turntable   The Rega is a good-sounding turntable
and a good value—at the UK price. Someone once said that the
Rega, which has no suspension, is a triumph of engineering over
the laws of physics. There is little isolation from acoustical
feedback—some Rega owners have gone to the extreme of mounting
their turntables on flimsy shelves, the flimse serving as
isolation of sorts.  That's not all that's wrong with the Rega.
When you drill a hole for an arm in the Rega's plinth, you've
got a hole in the Rega for good—there is no mounting board. So
if, like me, you decide that the Rega arm isn't so great for
medium-to-high–compliance moving-magnet cartridges, you either
have to stick with the arm or find something else that fits the
hole. Also there isn't enough room under the plinth to mount
many tonearms—Rega owners have had to lifts their turntables up
on stilts. (Rega is out with a new arm of their own manufacture,
which sells for around $135 in Britain.)  If it's a miracle that
the Rega sounds as