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Rega Ania MC Cartridge
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Rega Ania MC Cartridge

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£550.00    
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Rega Ania MC 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.'

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 ohms
  • Output impedance 10 ohms
  • Nominal output voltage 350μV
  • Channel Balance : ≥ 20μV
  • Separation : ≥ -29dB

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
Average Rating (1 Review):  
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Best single upgrade with existing setup.
07 February 2021  | 

Went from Exact 2 to Ania. That said the Exact gave a superb 2.5 years of wonderful listening and should not be overlooked as a superb MM.

However it was Immediately apparent that the step from MM to MC is a whole new realm altogether.

In summary the Ania is better in all areas including: Detail in bass, mids and tweeter. The pace, rhythm, timing are all tightly controlled. Soundstage is bigger and separation and clarity of the quality being retracted from the groove is a level upwards. That said a bad pressing will reveal exactly that with its warts and all. There is only a very thin veil to hide behind, so it won't take prisoners. A good pressing however presents music that sounds like it is breathing & alive. So that said it will be CD's over bad pressings & good pressings over CD's.

Some state from new the cartridge can be a little too bright / harsh, and will take time to smooth out. I have not found this, and if what is said is true, then wow bring it on as more is not really something I can imagine right now.

Also I have never fitted a cartridge in my life, but with scales, tweezers & supplied tool was able to replace and have up and running in 45 mins with no hitches.

Go for it if you are thinking of jumping from MM to MC, there is a reason to know what all that fuss is about.

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