Spacehopper:78finn:
Changing the Rega between speed settings won't ruin it at all!!!.....haha......not in the slighest bit....
Its designed to do so and even years of constant changing won't effect it at all....you might need to by a bew belt evert now and again...but you would have to anyway and there dirt cheap.....cheaper than a third party setup that has been spoken of on here anyway.
I have had my Rega 3 for years and years and my collection is a 50/50 split 45 & 33....Theres nothing wrong with it and I change speed almost daily. It has only had one service....because I spilt coffee all over it : )
If the fact that you have to to lift the plate and swap the belt up and down annoy's you.....well yeah, quite clearly you have purchased the wrong player. So sell it and get a different player - with a switch (yuk).
The Rega is built like a tank...will probably out live you and no ammount of changing belt chnages will cause it any fuss at all. Trust in the designers that engineered it - if it fails phone em up.
Also, if it suffered from a usage fault caused by belt change alone.......well I doubt it would have been given 5 stars by just about every magazine on the planet and stood the test of time like it has...
I'm sure you have bigger things to worry about....well bigger than my Rega might get a fault sometime in the future! ; )
Well that's me told
You'll be cursing someone if it packs up next week.
What cartridge have you got?