| In The Beginning...
In 1983, after using the Rega designed Japanese built
R200 tonearm for 10 years, Rega decided to design and build their first tonearm
in the UK, the RB300 (Rega Britain). The high pressure die-cast
silicon alloy tube alone took two years to develop with the UK's largest die casting
company. The work and our casting subsequently won us both an "international
casting award" from America for what is still considered today to be a technically
impossible casting. See if you can find one the same! To date, Rega have sold
over 250,000 RB300 derived British tonearms...
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RB250 For those on
a budget, the RB250 will offer astonishing performance for its price. It is fitted
as standard to the famous P2 turntable and is also the choice of many other turntable
manufacturers on an OEM basis. |
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| RB300 The first
Rega tonearm, and perhaps the most famous tonearm ever produced, the legendary
RB300. Fitted to the P3, this tonearm will never be found wanting for performance
and will make cartridges work very hard to provide you with astonishing quantities
of musical detail. |
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RB700 The
RB700, improves greatly on the previous model, the RB600. The aluminium tube has
been specially coated in a unique finish and the entire bearing housing has been
redesigned and is now manufactured to even higher tolerances. The
tonearm tube itself (which is a one piece silicone/aluminium casting) is very
rigid, whilst being low mass. The tonearm assembly is concentrated around precision,
hardened stainless steel, miniature ball races of the highest quality. The bearings
fit on to ground shafts and into the tonearm using interference fits. This means
that no adhesive is required and therefore none of the associated (component -
adhesive - component) losses in rigidity prevail. It is fitted to the plinth by
a 3-point fixing which is CNC machined out of a single solid block of Stainless
steel. This provides the strongest most rigid base structure possible for the
tonearm and causes less stress on the plinth and the RB700's bearing housing,
and therefore the least possible resonance. The
RB700 tonearm is designed to make cartridges work harder, maximising the cantilever
acceleration and travel as much as possible with the utmost accuracy within the
cartridge body thus providing new levels of information.
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RB1000 The RB1000 takes
thirty times longer to produce than an RB300. At present there are only two of
our most highly trained and experienced technicians that can build this exotic
tonearm. The RB1000 carries more technological changes
over previous Rega tonearms than any other Rega tonearm produced during the last
twenty years! Key areas of improvement can be found in the bearing assemblies,
wiring and materials used. We have worked to redistribute and reduce mass in areas
of the tonearm where mass is critical to performance. The easiest place to see
these changes in evidence would be the polished aluminium arm tube. It has no
coatings of any type.The changes we have made over the RB900 have resulted in
a tonearm with extremely high structural rigidity, combining ultra low friction
movement together with incredible stability. These attributes will make any cartridge
mounted on this tonearm work harder than they have ever worked before. Do not
be surprised if the first time you listen to familiar music, you hear detail that
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| Interesting Facts... |
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Rega
have been designing tonearms for 20 years - Since 1983 Rega tonearms
have been manufactured in the UK at the Essex based Rega factory
- We have
to date sold over 250,000 RB300 derived British tonearms
- Six full time
people assemble Rega tonearms
- You will see a photograph most months in
nearly all hi-fi magazines globally of a Rega built tonearm
- We supply
original equipment manufacturer tonearms (OEM) and parts to over 15 other manufacturers
- Rega
pioneered the use of exotic materials in tonearm design - Solid tungsten balance
weights.
- All wiring in our tonearms are purpose designed by us and are
of the highest performance level possible at the budget point of that tonearm
- Only
the highest quality "abec" controlled bearings are used in all our designs.
- Our
team can build 75 RB250's or 4 RB1000's in a day.
- High tensile strength
stainless steel is used throughout our RB300, RB600, RB700 and RB1000 designs.
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