Extracting Maximum Detail from Your Vinyl
The Ania Pro is the latest member of the Rega MC cartridge series and uses Rega's advanced Vital profile nude diamond stylus. This profile is designed to extract as much detail from the vinyl surface as possible. The Ania Pro delivers tight bass, warm midrange, and accurate top end frequencies to offer a well-balanced and detailed performance.
Using the unique hand-wound micro coil found in the rest of Rega's MC series, the Ania Pro is housed in a unique PPS highly rigid body. This body ensures accurate construction and Rega's three-point fixing method, which offers the optimum connection to the head-shell while automatically setting overhang. The new body is protected by a CAD-designed, red, rigid cover to protect the internal fine wires, making handling safe and risk free during installation.
The Ania Pro features a super high-powered, neodymium magnet and a coil meticulously hand wound on to an iron micro cross. This miniature assembly allows Rega greater freedom to track the vinyl groove, guaranteeing that maximum detail is extracted from the vinyl.
The Ania Pro is the perfect partner for the Planar 3, Planar 6 or Planar 8 turntable and a factory fitted option is available for both Planar 6 and Planar 8.
A unique Approach to Moving Coil Cartridge 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. The Ania Pro body uses a unique polymer/ 40% glass combination called Polyphenylene Sulphide (PPS-Fortron). The special attributes of this material are its hardness and stability in shape and dimension after molding, both critical for the performance of Ania.
A Complex Design Challenge
Rega needed to design a production mold tool capable of extreme accuracy and long life. PPS is a difficult polymer to mold and requires special attention to how the mold tool operates. Couple this to the almost unmoldable, 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 millimeter).To achieve this intricate body shape required the most complex high pressure injection mold 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, and a diamond tipped elliptical stylus cantilever with low mass moving coil generator assembly, and you have new market leading musicality, performance, speed, clarity, and detail never offered before at this price.
