| At
eighteen years Roy built his first pair of loudspeakers in perfectly
sealed cabinets. Not the first Rega product, but Roy was on his way.
His interest in hi-fi evolved from a passion for music. 'Bliss' in
those days was a live concert, a folk club, or any kind of record
player. In 1975 the Planar 2 was developed and quickly took its
place in the market as the finest budget turntable.
In June 1977 HI-FI
News and Record Review announced the Planar 3 saying 'The
complete unit is worth a look'! Rega's usual blaze of non-publicity.
In 1983 after five years of dabbling,
and two years of intensive development, the RB300 and RB250
Tonearms were produced. For ten years Rega had used Japanese and
Danish manufactured arms on the turntables but after some searching
Roy found a casting company prepared to work with him to develop an
entirely new production method enabling the one-piece tube to be
cast.
Rega won an international award for the
RB300 casting, presented by Modern Metals 'awarded in open competition
for excellence in the field of Aluminium Die Casting'. In their
accompanying letter they wrote: 'we are still trying to figure out how
you produce such a long cored hole so accurately'. This made up for
never winning any prizes breeding budgies!
Rega has
introduced a whole new electronic equipment range together with an
exciting new range of loudspeakers. A plethora of other new products
are imminent or well into the design and development stage, including
more loudspeakers and electronic products. The company now employs
fifty-five people and continues to grow. |
