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AudioMods Tonearm Exclusive Angelsound Audio Frosted Finish
The RB250 arm has been around so long now that it’s easy to forget how radical the design was when it first appeared. Firstly, the geometry was, within the practicality of rounding the measurements, correct. This might appear an obvious starting point but, amongst the top twenty 1970s tonearms, only the SME III and Michell had a correct offset angle, all the others being up to five degrees out. The armtube design with fixed headshell was radical and, in an S- shaped market, influenced just about every design that came after it.
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. £ 715.00
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AudioMods Rega, Series III Chrome Finish
Each arm now includes two counterweights and an annealed copper headhsell shim to allow matching to a very wide range of cartridges. The wiring loom has been extended to 0.9m. Pure silver litz wire specially built for us by Michell Engineering, terminated with Nakamichi phono sockets and Michell silver-plated cartridge tags. The arms are individually numbered and delivered in a very actrative wooden presentation box. £ 685.00
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