Upgrade Cart/Subplatter on Rega Planar 2 or Step up to Clearaudio Concept

Be foolish to not just buy a better cartridge for the Rega .

If you most listen to rock, it would be insane .

It would seem wiser to upgrade the turntable.

With a 4k budget there’s plenty of chose from, including other Regas.

For what it’s worth, I recently heard one of the skeletal Rega decks and was pleasantly surprised at how it seemed to sound like high quality tape.

Surface noise, what surface noise?

But there’s lots I haven’t heard recently - Technics would be another deck to look at as well the Clearaudio you mentioned.

I simply wouldn’t bother trying to mod the Rega, unless you wanted to change the motor, the arm, the platter, the plinth etc

Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like a large cartridge upgrade wouldn't neccesarely worth the investment. Wish I could hear differences but I guess in this hobby sometimes you have to take a leap. Do folks think on the CA Concept I should go with the wood? Is that worth the upgrade sound wise? What about Satisfy black vs Satisfy carbon. Also debating whether to take packaged CA Concept MC vs looking at Hana or others in the $750+ range on MC side. 

Yeah, the wood finishes look good. Adds a little class, if nothing to sound quality.

It’s a neat looking deck but I wouldn’t take the all black version.

Cartridges are matter of tone and taste. For example some folks hate the infamous Denon DL 103 and some adore it.

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-denon-dl-103r-cartridge

Thanks all,

Seems like spending on new turntable is best value for sound. I was willing to go say a Hana cartridge (ive heard both EH and SL on a P3) but not sure investment on p2 of cartridge at that price point would be worth it if I could simply sell the p2 now for not much of a loss and go Clearaudio direction. 

If I go EL or SL also need to get a new phono preamp but I would need to do that going to a MC cart on the Clearaudio as well so that is a wash. So I guess what I ultimately need to figure out which is hard is going to Clearaudio table lets say Hana SL cartridge in which case im shelling out a net $2500 more for better table components, tone arm etc, am I gonna get that much better sound audibly than upgrading to a Hana EL or SL on my P2 maybe with a groove tracer subplatjer upgrade for net investment of $1000. I'd say after typing this is $1500 more investment worth it for me to go to Clearaudio.