Moth OEM Tonearms

[squeegy200]

I stumbled across a catalog with Moth tonearms. They look suspiciously similar to REGA tonearms. And their deck looks like an Planar 2. Is this a clone or is it an OEM manufacturer for Rega?

The prices seem to be more reasonable and the same aftermarket mods for the Rega RB tonearms also work on the Moth arms.

Anyone with more info share some insight regarding Moth Audio?

[jrhymeammo]

The RB250 and RB300 tonearms are also available as OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts, either as part of a turntable package or as a replacement tonearm. Some are simply rebadged arms manufactured at the Rega factory....

There have been questions raised recently regarding the quality of Rega's OEM arms after a US Rega dealer stated publicly that the arms where built to lower standards than Rega branded arms. While this may be true of the Goldring GR1 arm, which is not an RB250 clone but a completely different product (although still manufactured by Rega), all the OEM distributors I've talked to have confirmed that the OEM 1 and OEM 2 tonearms are built to the same tolerances and on the same production lines as Rega's versions of the arms.......

I got these info from this site http://www.vinylengine.com/rega_arm_guide_page2.shtml

I think AcousticA used to sell them with Incognito wirings, but I'm not seeing them on their new catalog

JRA

[JohnMichael]

The Moth arms are Rega's that have been rewired. The rewire is a nice tweek because it elimainates several solder connections that the stock Rega arms have. I have a Rega arm that I sent to have the Incognito cable and it made a nice improvement. Now the wire is continuous from the cartridge clips to the RCA jacks.

[squeegy200]

I got these info from this site http://www.vinylengine.com/rega_arm_guide_page2.shtml
JRA

Good info from everyone. I've been doing a lot of online searching and discovering several relationships between manufacturers in regards to subcontracting or OEMing for others.

I found this informative -- especially the section on discontinued arms Not all of this is up to date and some of the links are now stale. But still helpful.

http://audiotools.com/arm_z.html