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The great strength of the Rega design is the armtube. It’s a very well executed thin-wall magnesium/aluminium alloy die casting with a one-piece headshell and double taper. Die casting is a far better way to make an arm than using a tube or even machining it from solid but it’s prohibitively expensive unless, as in the Rega case, it will be a mass-market product with a long life. The rest of the arm is exceptionally well designed for production at its price point but that’s also its great weakness when we are looking for real performance.
The bearings and the way that they are fixed is very compromised by price. The design of the RB250 depends upon careful setting up of a loose-tolerance bearing. There is no way to improve upon them unless we completely rethink the bearings and the way they are held The search for an improved arm and the resulting product was never, and isn’t, a commercial project but it has resulted, after some years of experiment, in a very limited quantity of bespoke, hand-built arms as well as DIY kits for fellow enthusiasts.
At commercial rates the design is simply too complex and time-consuming and uses some rather expensive parts to be translated into a series production product so it will only ever be hand made in tiny quantities.
Taking the humble Rega to a new level AudioMods have earned a reputation for the ultimate rebuild, there are many upgrades available for the Rega mostly concentrating on the counterweight or rewiring the AudioMods arm is a Total Rebuild. The only original components left are the armtube, arm lift and armrest.
- Hand-built to order around a highly modified Rega arm tube casting
- Widely spaced, high precision ceramic bearings in adjustable mountings
- Built-in vta adjustment with optional micrometer calibration
- Constrained layer damped counterweight controls vibrations
- Secondary counterweight to fine-tune vtf
- Pure silver litz wiring
- Hand-polished finish with stainless steel or gold plated counterweight
- Drop-in replacement for any Rega-geometry arm
- “Lifetime” warranty and support
Available as a package price along with any Dr Feickert turntable or new cartridge ask for details
