I didn’t think that I’d be able-to afford-to purchase a Rega turntable, but the Smart Home Sounds price was so astonishingly competitive; it was far too good to dismiss. I could have purchased elsewhere, but most wouldn’t have attracted the ‘Rega limited lifetime warranty’ as my Smart Home Sounds order duly did; so, how could I resist? A perfectly packaged parcel was placed in my hands no later than the following day. And I will say that there have been very few joys in life that could have surpassed my delight in quite the same way. At the precise moment when I dropped the needle on to a new-era of ‘natural’ vinyl sound, as the first nostalgic track began-to play. And, what I’ve lost in vision, I’ve gained in sound; but in this instance, I’ve not lost sight of never craving all of this audiophile perfection that’s become so unnecessarily absurd. As there’s no such thing; it’s more about how the perfectly imperfect Planar production turntables translate the vinyl language as only they were ‘intended’ to be heard. It took a blended mixture of vintage amplifiers, some original Rega Kyte and modern-day speakers to rekindle this far more ‘natural over perfection’ Rega Planar vinyl sound that I always used-to know. Both Rega and Smart Home Sounds have given me an affordable opportunity to be instantaneously transported back-to that musical memory show; and this modern Rega Planar turntable now sounds the same as my late father’s 1978 RP3 did, all of those decades ago.