Inspire Hi-Fi Eclipse (includes RB1000 Tonearm)

The Eclipse precision turntable is built to exacting standards, now rarely seen in industry.

The concept of allowing experts to come together to provide the very best available craftsmanship and manufacturing abilities within their field, brings the designer’s aim; “for an affordable product with the very best in sound and looks” to those who seek to be highly inspired by their Hi-Fi.

The Eclipse weighs more than 13kg and this high density construction combined with expertise in critical metal and acrylic engineering, provides the basis for the absolute limitation of coloration in the music...

· The turntable is supported on three highly machined steel and acrylic cones on which incorporate a new concept in sorbothane shock absorber isolation.

· Highly machined bearing and inner bearing shaft manufactured to fit each other individually - not in batches.

· Half inch thick machined alloy sub platter

· Individually machined pulley for 33 and 45rpm speeds

· 30mm thick acrylic and alloy platter with peripheral weighting

· A half inch bolted in arm base to fit the arm of your choice, machined from alloy and to a stunning finish

· Choice of packages available with the Inspire tonearms

· Distinctive and flame polished acrylic 2 plinth configuration, perfectly CNC'd to house all the parts

· Lower plinth designed to 'lock in' the sorbothane isolation system, giving an amazing solidity and impact to the reproduction of the music

· A highly tuned power supply perfected by electronics experts using the best audio parts available, and housed within an acrylic under platform

· Very high quality AC synchronous motor provides smooth and quiet operation, which is further isolated by the use of sorbothane between motor and the acrylic plinth

· Topped with a most desirable and highly engineered record weight.

The award winning RB1000 takes almost twenty times longer to produce than an RB301. At present there are only two highly experienced technicians that can build this exotic tonearm.

A "blue printing" parts and assembly process is used resulting in zero tolerance engineered assemblies offering ultimate performance.

The bearings fit on to ground shafts and into the tonearm using interference fits. This means that no adhesive is required and therefore none of the associated (component - adhesive - component) losses in rigidity prevail. It is fitted to the plinth by a 3-point fixing which is CNC machined out of a single solid block of Stainless steel. This provides the strongest most rigid base structure possible for the tonearm and causes less stress on the plinth and the bearing housing, and therefore the least possible resonance.

The RB1000 carries more technological changes over previous Rega tonearms than any other Rega tonearm produced during the last twenty years! Key areas of improvement can be found in the bearing assemblies, wiring and materials used. We have worked to redistribute and reduce mass in areas of the tonearm where mass is critical to performance. The easiest place to see these changes in evidence would be the polished aluminum arm tube. It has no coatings of any type.

The changes made have resulted in a tonearm with extremely high structural rigidity, combining ultra low friction movement together with incredible stability. These attributes will make any cartridge mounted on this tonearm work harder than they have ever worked before. Do not be surprised if the first time you listen to familiar music, you hear detail that you have not heard before.