Rega Aphelion 2 MC

Product Details The hand built Aphelion Moving Coil cartridge is the ultimate in micro engineering and design.Taking two years to develop this ground breaking new cartridge is guaranteed to retrieve more music from your vinyl than ever before.To improve stiffness we have introduced a boron rod cantilever to increases tracking accuracy and performance. The stylus is a diamond 'Vital' profile rotated through 90 degrees to improve rigidity of the diamond mount. Rega’s Moving Coil cartridge design is unique in its approach to achieving an ultra-low mass generator which is undamped (no tie wire) using a unique rhomboid pivot for the cantilever powered by a purpose designed, exclusive to Rega, Neodymium magnet system. This type of design requires a zero-tolerance engineered cartridge body which is Rega’s area of expertise and with the Aphelion these bodies are machined from one piece of the highest quality aluminium. This is a difficult and expensive process requiring all of Rega’s forty-four years of experience to achieve. In particular, the “zero” tolerancing of the body is required in the alignment and dimension of the pivot pad mounting hole and the magnet mechanism mounting hole relationship. Technical Specification Specifications : Tracking Pressure 1.75 - 2.00g Input load impedance 100 ohms Output impedance 10 ohms Nominal output voltage 350μV Channel Balance : ≥ 10μV Separation : ≥ -29dB Mass 6g Key Features : Graded zero tolerance black anodised aluminium body Boron rod cantilever 'Vital' profile nude diamond stylus rotated through 90 degrees. Iron micro cross & coil assembly making one of the worlds smallest MC generators. Worlds most powerful minaturised neodymium magnet. High specification fine wire 0.018mm Load settings for adjustable MC stages Impedance -100ohm Capacitance - 1000pF Gain setting - High ('On' position for Rega phono stages )