★Carried & Installed

Rega turntables · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Rega across the Kansas City metro — a turntable and phono stage in a listening room, an amplifier for a two-channel system, and the wiring and control that make a record player one source among the others in the house. One precision first: Rega is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Rega dealer. What we are is the people who choose the right pieces for the room, set them up properly, and commission what we install. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Rega

Rega describes itself as making turntables in England since 1973, and its site sorts the range into turntables, amplifiers, phono stages, CD players and DAC, loudspeakers, cartridges, tonearms, systems and accessories. The families below are the ones listed on Rega’s own site, in its own spelling. We specify, install and commission to order.

• Turntables. Rega lists the Planar 1, Planar 1 Plus, Planar 78, Planar 2, Planar 3, Planar 6 and Planar 8, with the Planar 10 Ref and the Naia Ref marked Ref on the same page. The turntable is the decision that sets the rest of the chain — arm, cartridge, phono stage — so it is where the vinyl half of a whole-house audio conversation starts.
• Tonearms and cartridges. Rega’s tonearm list reads RB220, RB330, RB880, RB3000 Ref and RB Titanium Ref; its cartridge list reads Nd3, Nd5, Nd7, Nd9 Ref, Ania, Ania Pro, Apheta 3, Aphelion 2 Ref and Carbon. The pairing matters more than any single part, which is why we choose arm, cartridge and phono stage together rather than one at a time.
• Phono stages. Fono Mini A2D, Fono MM, Fono MC, Aos MC and Aura MC Ref. A turntable’s output is far smaller than a normal source, so a phono stage has to lift it before the amplifier, and the stage has to suit the cartridge — moving magnet or moving coil. Rega’s amplifier page also lists a built-in MM phono stage on the Io, Brio, Elex and Elicit, which can remove the separate box when the cartridge is a moving-magnet one.
• Amplifiers. Io, Brio, Elex, Elicit, Aethos and Osiris Ref, plus the Mercury Ref pre-amplifier and the Solis Ref stereo power amplifier, which Rega lists as compatible with each other. Several of them list a headphone socket and a DAC or digital inputs; the page for each model says which. This is the amplification behind a dedicated media room or a two-channel listening room.
• CD player and DAC. Rega groups the Isis Ref and the Valve Isis Ref under CD players and DAC. We treat them as a source on the same footing as the turntable: one input, one control command, one entry in the project record.
• Loudspeakers. Rega also lists two loudspeakers, the KYTE and the AYA. They suit a room where the whole stereo chain is meant to come from one maker, and they are specified like any other stereo pair — against the room, the listening distance and the amplifier.
• Systems and accessories. The REGA SYSTEM ONE is listed under Rega’s systems heading, and the accessories include the Atlas, Neo PSU, Couple 3 Interconnect, Strobe Kit and Carbon Stylus. Interconnects and power supplies are decided at design, not at the end of the job when the shelf is already built.

How we put Rega into a room

A turntable is the one source in a house that cares about the furniture it stands on. These are the parts of the job that decide whether it works.

• Where it stands comes first. A solid, level surface away from the speakers and the subwoofer, with the lead lengths worked out before the cabinet is built. A record player on a shelf the bass can move is a feedback problem no cartridge fixes. On a house still being framed this is a prewire decision, which is what our new-construction low-voltage walk is for.
• Cabling. The phono lead is kept short and away from power cords, the ground lead lands where the phono stage asks for it, and the turntable gets its own outlet. Hum is a cabling fault, and it is far cheaper to avoid at rough-in than to chase afterwards.
• Setup. Cartridge alignment, tracking force and arm height are set to the figures the cartridge maker publishes, and we check the result against a record we know before we leave.
• Control. The amplifier’s power and input go on the same touch panel or remote as everything else, through the control system the house already runs, so playing a record starts with one button instead of three. The record still has to be turned over by hand, and we say so plainly. See luxury home automation for how the rest is controlled.
• Documentation. Model and serial numbers, the cartridge fitted and the date the stylus went on, the input map and the control settings land in your portal with the rest of the project record, so a stylus change is a calendar item rather than a surprise.

Where Rega sits beside the other lines we carry

Rega is the turntable-first answer. On our roster the other record-player line is Pro-Ject, which lists more turntable lines and a longer run of phono stages, amplifiers, DACs and streamers beside them — look there when the chain wants a different mix of pieces. When one amplifier has to feed more than one room, NAD’s Custom Install series is the rack line built for it. And for a two-channel room that is mostly an amplifier decision, the PMA integrated amplifiers on our Denon page are the ones we point to for a room built around a turntable.

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