Rega Aphelion 2 Moving Coil Cartridge

The Aphelion 2 on the P10 makes for an astonishingly exciting and engaging musical experience, one that had me using expletives in an attempt to get my enthusiasm down in the notes. It does wide bandwidth with meaty, weighty bass that is incredibly nimble but powerful too. It does image scale, depth and three dimensionality with ease when the requisite information is in the groove, and it does tonal finesse that will keep a tube lovers head in the clouds.

JASON KENNEDY, THE EAR, MAY 2020

The Aphelion 2 is thefourth generation of Rega’s uniquemoving coil cartridges.Taking the technology developedfromthe original Aphelion and the latestApheta 3 to thenext level,Rega’s engineershave fine-tuned every aspect of the original design.

Aphelion 2 features a boron rod cantilever now fitted with Rega’s most advanced “fine line type” nude diamond profile, combined with a super high-powered neodymium magnet and a coil meticulously hand wound on an iron micro cross. The weight reduction of the generator allows greater freedom to track the vinyl groove ensuring even more detail is extracted from the vinyl. The Aphelion 2 is housed within a single-piece black anodized aluminum body, and protected by a CAD-designed, clear rigid cover to protect the internal fine wires, making for safer handling whilst fitting.

The Aphelion 2 is the perfect partner for the Rega Planar 10 turntable.

Features

• Graded zero-tolerance black anodized aluminum body
• Boron rod cantilever
• Fine line typenude diamond stylus rotated through 90 degrees
• Iron micro crossand coil assembly
• Powerfulminaturizedneodymium magnet
• High specification fine wire, 0.018mm

Specifications

Tracking pressure: 1.9 g
Input load impedance: 100 Ohm
Output impedance: 10 Ohm
Nominal output voltage: 350 V
Channel balance: 10 V
Separation:-29 dB
Mass: 6 g