A little love for the Rega P9 Turntable

[Tonepub]

Owners, your thoughts?


The Rega P9: Long Term – Analogaholic | TONEAudio MAGAZINE

[f1 fan]

Jeff...thanks for the link. Great review on a great 'table and for the $$ Rega's are almost impossible to beat. Plug, play and spin. I love my Rega.

Dave

[Puma Cat]

I just wish I could afford a P9 right now....I'd love to have one.

[Jerome W]

Jeff,
Did you try the Apheta MC cart with it or just the Exact ?

[Puma Cat]

IIRC, Jeff's had a no. of cartridges on it. I heard it when he had the Shelter 501MKII on iit and it sounded great.

[miner]

Jeff,
Thanks for the link. I have gone from a P5 w/TTPSU & Exact cartridge, to a P7 w/Dynavector DV20XH to my current P9 w/Lyra Delos in the course of 3.5 years. Each step was a sonic improvement with the greatest coming from the P7 to the P9. It is a simple but elegant deck and is a fine flagship for the Rega line. I have done the white belt upgrade plus also the Herbie's mat (was getting perturbed with the felt/wool mat sticking to my LPs when lifting off). I may one day try the Alpheta cartridge just to get a different flavor of what is going on. With the P5/P7 I used a Graham Slee Era Gold IV phono stage - much improved over the Rotel phono stage on the RC-1082 pre. Once I steppred up to the McIntosh C2200 and C2300 I no longer required the Graham Slee - the Mc stages are surprisingly good plus on the C2300 I can change loading on the fly with the remote. My P9 is here to stay. Where can I find the original write up? I had contemplated a tonearm rewire with Cardas but I thought ot myself, Why?

[Face]

I'm curious about the Cardas rewire also.

[Tonepub]

I typically use the Apheta on the P9 with excellent results. The full write up is in issue 11, but we will be loading it to the Analogaholic part of the site soon.

The only caveat with the Apheta is that it requires to be loaded down LOW. 50 ohms for sure, 25 if you can do it. As I recall Art Dudley reviewed the cartridge for Stereophile, but only had a phono pre capable of 1000 ohm loading. This will send you out of the room screaming with the Apheta. And sure enough, he found the cartridge forward.

While some swear by the Cardas rewire, the quality of the wire in the P9 is excellent. The big issue is the potential for screwing up the bearings in the arm and voiding the warranty. I've never been gutsy enough to take that risk.

[miner]

My thoughts exactly why I did not want to do the rewire. I believe the P9 has Klotz wire in it, so it is a very good quality wiring job. An authorized Rega dealer in SA, TX offered to do the job for me at a pricey sum of $$$. This is when I had my P7 - that is when I decdied to just use the extra funds and upgrade to the P9.

Jeff,
Have you ever tried to change the surrounds on the P9? If so, how difficult is it?

[Tonepub]

I have never changed the surrounds on a p9, sorry.