Rega Aphelion

摘要

It's around 30 years since Rega started building its own moving-magnet cartridges, and ten years since we saw the first Rega moving-coil, the Apheta [HFN Aug '08 and Oct '14]. But although the £2998 Aphelion is derived from the Apheta and Apheta 2, it reflects progress in manufacturing techniques as well as design enhancements. Buyers of the Rega RP10 turntable [HFN Aug '15] can now choose to have the Aphelion factory-fitted at an inclusive price of £5498, thereby saving £498 against the price of the two items bought separately. From the start, Rega's approach to moving-coil design has been quite radical. In most MC designs, the back end of the cantilever is mounted in a compliant pivot block and it is held in position by a steel tie-wire that must be tensioned critically. The coils themselves are attached to the cantilever just in front of the pivot. Rega dispenses with the tie-wire by using a long cantilever that passes right through an elastomer pivot block, and carries the moving-coils on its back end. Immediately behind these coils is a small but powerful neodymium-iron magnet. This layout in a way resembles moving-magnet practice, and is very different from any other MC.