The Rega RB250 is a very high performance arm at an extremely reasonable price. It is a simplified version of the RB300 (see below) with changes to the wiring and bearings. From an operational point of view the it also dispenses with the RB300’s spring arrangement for the tracking force and replaces it with a conventional counterbalance.

Whilst being made to a price it still features very well adjusted high quality bearings and even special highly flexible internal wiring to ensure the lowest friction as it arcs above the LP.
This is a real bargain of a tonearm, its sound is warm and substantial, with very low surface noise.

The RB300 set the bench mark that all others would be compared to when it was launched in 1983, and this remains true to this day after over 250,000 have been sold.
It has superb structural rigidity as the whole arm tube is one aluminium casting made through a process that was previously considered impossible and as a results offers performance that we feel is unparalleled.

The Arm One is based on the Rega RB250 and is wired throughout with Audio Note wire at the Rega factory. The external lead out wire is the bright yellow copper AN-A cable.
This modification brings an extra level of detail to the Rega arm and also improves overall tonality and is suited to exploiting even higher quality cartridges than the standard arm.


The Nima tonearm is quite radical in both appearance and construction. It’s a unipivot design - you can see the single point bearing in the picture below, which is basically a spike resting in a cup. The simplicity of a unipivot design has several advantages over fixed bearings as well as being more affordable to produce.

The Nima was originally designed as part of the Radius 5 turntable package, but due to its excellent value it stands on its own against any arm.
In common with all unipivots it offers an expansive soundstage and freedom of sound that can make fixed pivot arms sound constricted in comparison (but as to which presentation is correct is, as always, a matter of system matching and personal taste).
The arm fits into a Rega cut out so can be used on many turntables easily, although we’d recommend avoiding turntables with very lively suspension as cueing and footfalls could cause problems, however it can successfully be used on turntables like the Linn LP12.
An uprated high definition external arm cable is also now available as an option for £156.

The TecnoArm A is another modified RB250, but Michell’s upgrades are some of the most comprehensive and certainly the best executed that we’ve come across.
The attention to detail includes an arm tube that is drilled on its underside to reduce mass and resonance’s. The underside of the headshell is then machined to ensure its absolutely level and finally the whole tube is bead blasted.

The wiring is replaced with very high quality pure silver cable from Deskadel which runs in one continuous piece from the cartridge tags to the phono plugs (both sets of connectors are naturally silver plated).
The counterweight is the beautifully engineered Tecnoweight which is marked to every 0.1 gramme so tracking force can be setup without a stylus balance. Finally a VTA adjuster and finger nut is included for decks with a suitable armboard allowing easy changes of vertical tracking angle to be made without tools (although the VTA adjuster can easily be removed for decks that don’t have the provision for it).
After all this work is completed the bearings are adjusted by hand by Rega trained engineers (unlike many of the modified Rega arms on the market) to ensure the best results.
The sound of the Tecnoarm A is extraordinary and ultimately will tell you more about the cartridge fitted to it than it will about itself. However what stands out is a level of detail retrieval and precision that few can match and none at this price level that we know about.

The Interspace tonearm is fantastic value for money. It combines an ultra light weight carbon fibre arm tube with a damped unipivot bearing and is in essence a scaled down version of the Ace Space arms (see below). As you’d expect from Nottingham Analogue the engineering is superb and the sound is fast, open and immediate.

The Ace Space tonearm is a beautifully hand crafted design. It features an ultra light weight carbon fibre arm tube and uses a damped unipivot bearing. This damping means this arm is as easy to handle as a fixed pivot tonearm, suffering none of the instability you otherwise tend to get when cueing. It produces a delightfully natural sound with exceptional speed and good dynamics.

It is available in two different lengths, the conventional 9” model is £650 (shown in the top photo) and the 12” version is £780 (as pictured below). A 12” tonearm is always preferable where you have space for it as it lowers tracking distortion, offering more consistent sound throughout an LP side.

The Opus Cantus is an unusual but extremely effective tonearm. It is a passive parallel tracker with an exceptionally low 15 gramme moving mass. The arm runs on miniature ball races within a glass tube, an outrigger (see picture below) holds the lead out wires to prevent them from restricted the arms movement and a manual undamped lift/lower lever enables easy cueing.
It’s designed to be glued rather than bolted to an arm board and naturally should be used only on non suspended turntables. For those used to more conventional pivoted arms then it’s a little fiddly and time consuming to initially setup, but as long as these factors are taken care of then prepare to be amazed with its performance - the lack of tracing distortion is astonishing and the dynamics and scale this arm is capable of retrieving are remarkable but not at the cost of detail or overall resolution.

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