The Moving Coil cartridge

Apheta

The Story

When asked by our customers to produce an MC cartridge we decided to analyse existing designs on the market. We were astonished to discover that 99% of the products followed the same design principles established almost 50 years ago when materials and manufacturing processes were far less advanced than today.

Conventional MC cartridges utilize a steel suspension system (tie wire) which creates a high amplitude H.F resonance (normally around 8-12Khz). Such resonance is unacceptable and is usually damped by a rudimentary piece of foam rubber. However the foam rubber deteriorates with age and cannot prevent the complete structure from vibrating and "ringing".

The specifics and adjustment of the tie wire and damping determine whether the cartridge is under damped (bright) or over damped (warm and bass heavy).
A happy medium is rarely achieved.

This encouraged Rega to pursue a new direction inspired by modern materials and the basic laws of magnetism. The Rega Apheta contains neither a tie wire nor a foam damper. After 4 years and many hundreds of experiments the innovative design of the Apheta was complete.

Moving coil aficionados will all recognise the long search for super clear high frequency combined with firm tight bass.

The search is now over.

The Moving Magnet cartridge range

	RB78 The RB78 is a general purpose mono cartridge designed to play most 78 rpm records. Output: 6.2 - 6.8mV Stylus: RB78 Fixing: Standard, two screws Coils: High Spec parallel wound coils Colour: Black
	Bias 2 Output: 6.8 - 7.2mV Stylus: elliptical Fixing: standard, two screws Coils: High Spec parallel wound coils Colour: Red
	Elys 2 Output: 6.8 - 7.2mV Stylus: elliptical Fixing: Rega three point fixing Coils: High Spec parallel wound coils Colour: Blue
	Exact Output: 6.8 - 7.2mV Stylus: Vital. Complex fine line micro-ground from a rectangular diamond billet. Fixing: Rega three point fixing Coils: High Spec parallel wound coils Colour: Yellow

All cartridges play at 1.75g

Rega have worked hard on extracting even more performance from the new range of cartridges - generating superior sound and dynamic quality at no extra cost over their predecessors.

Rega have improved production methods utilising new technology which has become available.

All you have to do is listen!