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I'VE JUST LISTENED TO £250,000-WORTH OF TURNTABLES AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED
What Hi-Fi UK
|December 2024
Technical editor Ketan Bharadia finds that differing engineering philosophies can all yield great results

The past few months have been a real treat for me. Due to a serendipitous sequence of circumstances, much of my time has been spent in the company of some interesting and rather exotic record players.
The most modest was the new Rega Planar3/Nd3 combination (£799). Now, the Planar 3 deck is about as well known as specialist record players get, having been in production for almost 50 years. Over that time it has consistently remained one of our go-to recommendations at its price – and this latest package simply reinforces that. It remains as musically talented a turntable as we have heard at this level. That its price remains unchanged from the previous Planar 3/Elys 2 package is also laudable.

Next up the price ladder comes Linn’s ‘entry-level’ LP12 Majik partnered with the company’s Koil MC cartridge (£3935). This is a good starting point on the LP12 ladder and delivers a decent dose of the legendary deck’s magic. Our main comparison for the Linn was the Award-winning Vertere DG-1S/Magneto combination (£3950), but at the same time, we also had the mighty SME Model 20 Mk2/Series V arm/Ortofon Windfeld Ti MC package (£30,349) ready for review. As a team, we spent some entertaining days swapping between the Linn, Vertere and SME, as well as our reference Technics SL-1000R/Kiseki Purpleheart MC record player (£21,494), before forming our opinions on the review products.
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