Rega RB250
The RB250 uses the same arm tube as the RB300 but substitutes the stainless end stub for a threaded plastic version and the counterweight is black painted steel rather than tungsten or stainless steel.
Description
The lateral bearing housing is in brass and the vertical bearings are on either side of the arm tube, with the VTF dial omitted.
Early models came with a lacquered steel counterweight rather than black and recent photographs suggest that Rega has now returned to this silver counterweight on it's Rega branded RB250s.
Specifications
Effective length: 237mm
Overhang: 15mm
Offset: 22 degrees
Mounting distance: 222mm
Mounting hole: 23mm
Effective mass: 12g
Cartridge weight range: 4 to 11g
Review
The ultimate budget arm? Refined, detailed, sweet and natural.
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(early) instruction/owners manual (en)
(late) instruction/owners manual (en)
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User Reviews
A classic budget arm which improves dramatically with a new counterweight and a rewire.
10/10 by JaS
As standard frankly rather grey ,flat and sterile,but well made and a bargain at the price.
Given the cost of upgrading would rather go somewhere else from the outset.
5/10 by abril
Well made and affordable . A great match for low compliance MC's if you add a little extra mass at the headshell.
9/10 by audiopile
A reasonable budget arm, but certainly no giant killer.
The recommended upgrades of a rewire and new counterweight gives a worthwhile improvement, but take it to a higher price point, which to me, makes it a questionable buy.
It remains however a good value budget arm.
6/10 by mike19455
compared to the competition at the time it was released it was nothing short of a revelation, rega's poor choice of wiring method and that plastic end stub did it no favours ,it was intended to be a high production volume budget arm and i believe rega had no idea of what they had created,, but with a re-wire and end stub replacement it can happily wear cartridges costing way more than the arm itself, and it is still being modified and reworked to this day,
10/10 by Matt Lynch
Comments
Rega RB250 counter weight
there were some versions of the Rega RB250 counterweight that were made from stainless steel, I am looking at one now.
Rega Arm Anti_skating bias
I just purchased a Michell modified RB-250. In setting it up, the arm has a distinct pull back to the arm lock bar with no anti-skating selected. I was told by the US rep that this is normal. Is this indeed the case?
Rega Arm Anti-skating bias.
The original internal wiring of the Rega arms is fed through a very tightly fitting grommet to prevent the physical resistance of the wiring from interfering with the anti-skating force. Sometimes a dealer will lose or not replace this grommet. In this case you need to set the anti-skating to zero, unscrew the hex nut holding the cable base in place and carefully rotate the base anti-clockwise until a zero bias has been obtained.
Hopefully this will cure the problem.
Rega Arm Antiskating Bias
I also just got the Michell TecnoArm and it behaved in the same way, making it arduous to find the correct position of the cartridge. I noticed the same behavior on a brand new RB700 on a Rega P5.