Rega Ania MC Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

Rega Ania MC Moving Coil Phono Cartridge

PREOWNED – FULLY TESTED – INCLUDES

ORIGINAL STYLUS GUARD, SCREWS

 

Ania moving coil

cartridge

The newest member of the Rega MC

cartridge range the Ania was inspired by the success of the Apheta 2 and

Aphelion MC cartridges. Using the same exceptionally complex hand wound micro

coil found in the rest of the range, the Ania is housed in a unique PPS highly

rigid body, ensuring accurate construction and Rega’s three point fixing

method ensuring optimum connection to the headshell and automatic setting for

overhang. The new body is protected by a CAD designed, clear rigid

cover to protect the internal fine wires, making handling whilst fitting,

safe and risk free.The Ania features a super high-powered, neodymium

magnet and a coil meticulously hand wound on to an iron cross. This

miniature assembly allows us greater freedom to track the vinyl

groove ensuring even more detail is extracted from the vinyl.

All of these features combine to deliver a balanced and

dynamic performance that will engage you with your vinyl like never before.The

Ania is the perfect partner for the Planar 3, Planar 6 or RP8

turntables.

A unique design.

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 Apheta 2 and Aphelion products 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.

When we decided to produce a Moving Coil cartridge at half

the cost of the Apheta 2, the special aluminium body could

not be used, it was simply too expensive. The solution lay in an unusual

polymer/glass combination

called Polyphenylene Sulphide (PPS-Fortron). With 40% glass,

this material could be moulded and would solve the cost problem. The

special attributes of this material are its hardness and stability in shape and

dimension post moulding, both critical for the performance

of Ania. Now came the challenge. Rega designed

and prototyped using SLA systems in just a few months, proving the

validity of the design direction.

Now we had to design a production mould tool

capable of extreme accuracy and long life. PPS is a difficult polymer

to mould and requires special attention to how

the mould tool operates. Couple this to an almost unmouldable

complex shape of the Ania body and a very considerable challenge

faced the Rega engineers and the toolmakers chosen. The toolmakers

are of the highest technical skill level, using the most accurate

Swiss EDM CNC machines, their regular customers being the military and

medical industries, routinely working down to a micron (one thousandth of

a millimetre).To achieve this intricate body shape required the most

complex high pressure injection mould tool that Rega has

ever designed. The tool has eight major parts, four of which must move in

perfect synchronicity with each other to achieve each cartridge body.

The design and manufacture of this “work of art” took an entire year to produce

and was made exclusively by the most senior toolmaker requiring all his

lifetime of artisanal experience.

Combine this special PPS body with its high specification

stainless steel inserts, a unique rhomboid pivot system, a tried and tested

high performance, diamond tipped elliptical stylus cantilever with low mass

moving coil generator assembly and you have new market leading musicality, performance,

speed, clarity, and detail as never before at this price.

Specifications:

Tracking Pressure 1.75 – 2.00g

Input load impedance 100 ohm

Output impedance 10 ohms

Nominal output voltage 350μV

Channel Balance : ≥ 20μV

Separation : ≥ -29dB

Mass 6g

Key Features:

Iron cross & micro coil assembly

One of the world’s smallest MC generators.

Cutting edge neodymium magnet.

Elliptical profile stylus

Constructed from high specification 0.018mm fine wire

Load settings for adjustable MC stages

Impedance -100ohm

Capacitance – 1000pF

Gain setting – High (‘On’ position for Rega phono stages)

Fono MC dip switch settings for all Rega MC models.

Aria Phono stage dip switch settings for all Rega MC models.