Rega RB880 Tonearm

Rega RB880 Tonearm

Rega design, engineer and put together their own range of turntable components and are world-renowned for doing so at a superior level. In conjunction with enhanced chassis and motor design principles, Rega takes meticulous care in putting together their tonearm and cartridge models. Many of these units can and are often used in conjunction with non-Rega turntable models

Key Features

• Redesigned aluminium vertical-bearing housing
• Redesigned sleeve
• Integrated arm clip
• Improved spring housing
• Rega's award-winning low-mass aluminium tonearm tube
• Extreme stability and almost friction-free movement
• Hand-selected bearings
• Lifetime warranty against manufacture defects
• Rega RB880 instructions 

Rega's RB880 tonearm is hand-assembled by Rega's highly engineers with an improved bearing design and a tightened spindle. Each bearing has been selected specifically and individually for the chosen spindle. Rega believes that it's this method that allows for greater amounts of detail to be retrieved from the grooves of your vinyl records. 

The extreme levels of stability achieved, coupled with almost friction-free movement from the high precision hand-matched bearing assemblies, guarantee to gather more information from your vinyl than ever before. You will also find Rega-made new low-capacitance phono cables terminated with high-specification phono plugs.

Rega is famed for its tonearm designs. One unique characteristic of these designs is the achievement of near frictionless movement horizontally and vertically whilst having no measurable free play in the bearing assemblies. A brand new low mass precision engineered vertical bearing assembly has been manufactured to further complement the inherent design philosophy of the Planar 8 turntable. The RB880 uses the latest Rega arm tube. Completely redesigned to redistribute mass and further reduce stresses and resonances. This advanced design tube increases the stiffness and rigidity of the overall assembly using CAD design to blend the multiple varying tapers.

Externally we have fitted a bespoke Rega designed low capacitance phono cable. Which uses an advanced phono plug assembly. This has only two parts to minimise joints and incorporates a twist and clamp design locking the plug to the terminal. The design increases connectivity and ensures the signal path is kept as clean as possible.

Who is Rega?

Rega is a specialist hifi manufacturer based in Essex, UK and is renowned for developing and constructing some of the most highly regarded turntables (as well as cartridges and tonearms), electronics and loudspeakers available on the hifi market today. Rega was founded in 1973, and has honed their craft over many years of being a leading brand in every category they put a product to.