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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.
| 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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| 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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