Congratulations on getting your new Rega turntable! Just like all things made with great engineering, there are a few simple steps that will help maintain the life of your table. Most people hold onto a good table for decades, so whenever the need arises, just use these tips & tricks with your Rega table, and you'll have something really special that will last a long time.
Every so often something will happen in shipping and the cueing platform on your new Rega turntable will not be set at the correct height. If it is set too low, when you raise the tonearm cue lever at the end of the record, it will not lift the tonearm off the record surface. If it is set too high, you might not properly track the record or the tonearm may not even be able to go all the way down.
Luckily, this is a very simple issue to fix, but you will need a 1.25mm hex wrench. The cueing platform on your Rega tonearm is a small, black piece with rubber on the top that is parallel to the record surface. If you are looking at your tonearm from the front, it is on the left side at the back of the tonearm shaft.
The idea is when the cue lever is all the way down, and you are playing a record, there should be about ⅛” to ¼” of clearance between the cueing platform and the bottom of the tonearm. You will see a small hex key on the shaft of the cueing mechanism.
Just follow these steps:
We hope these simple steps helped you get the cueing platform on your Rega table in the position it needed to be.
Rega turntables do not have the typical ground system found on many other turntables. Rega actually has a good reason for doing this as they put the ground on the left channel audio cable. They believe doing it this way sounds better and it is hard to argue with their decades of experience.
However, sometimes we will run into a certain combination of equipment where we need to ground a Rega turntable beyond the audio cable ground. If you just added a new Rega turntable and are experiencing audio hum, you may have one of those combinations.
There are two ways to add a ground based on the gear you have:
Method One: (Used when you have a Rega phono preamp in the system.)
Method Two: (Used when you do not have a Rega phono preamp in the system.)
This should eliminate the hum you were experiencing. If it does not, it is likely a piece of equipment is physically too close to your turntable that has a large hum field. That issue is a whole different matter that you will need to experiment with the physical locations of your gear to resolve.
The motor found on Rega turntables needs a little bit of oil to run properly. You may want to add some after about 15-20 years of service. The symptom is a noisy motor.
However, every once in a while, the shipping company will put a new Rega turntable upside down in their delivery truck, causing some oil to leak out. You would experience this as a noisy motor on a brand new turntable.
But fear not, if you purchased your Rega from Audio Advice we are here to help you. The first step is to let us know you are having a problem. Just reach out to one of our tech support experts and they will send you a small syringe containing a few drops of Rega motor oil.
Then, simply take the following steps:
6. Turn on the turntable, then after a few seconds remove the paper towel.
7. Let it run this way for at least 24 hours, which will give time for the oil to seep back into the motor.
After you have done this process, you should now have a quiet motor! Keep the oil in a safe place as you might need it again in 15-20 years.
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