Rega RB250 Tonearm Upgrade Options/Opinions

Ha, true Steve! At least Rega did the casting of the arm tube well (just kidding Rega lovers ;-). I went to the Santa Clara, CA shop of Groovetracer to order my counterweight, which is a really cool design. But if you get every after-market Rega part, you end up spending enough to have bought an imo better table/arm from the outset. A good way to get a fully-modified Rega is from someone who has already done it all. Let him take the loss.

A whole industry evolved out of the owners of Rega RB300 arms needing the junk stock wire (with numerous solder joints) replaced with high quality stuff. Brooks Berdan rewired a lot of them with Cardas cartridge tags and internal copper wire, terminated on George's RCA jack block, but I had him do mine to RCA plugs. Soldering of only the cartridge tags and RCA plugs to the wire!

Great @butzchan, you can afford even the new, best Audiomods arm. Jeff is a master machinist, making every single part of his arm. He uses silicon ball bearings (okay, Jeff doesn't make them ;-), his unique counterweight allows for variable amounts of moving mass (to suit the compliance of your cartridge), he installs stiffening braces inside his arm tubes (to reduce resonance), offers copper or silver internal wire, and, as @williwonka stated, terminates the wire with the excellent KLEI RCA plugs. You can get his arms with a single, uninterrupted (no solder joints) run of wire from cartridge tags to RCA plugs, the best way to do it.

@butzchan, you don't mention a budget, but Jeff at Audiomods has a new model he recently announced. It is the same in most regards as his previous models (excellent arms), but incorporates his own carbon fiber wand in place of the Rega tube (the only part of his arms not of his own design and manufacture). All his arms are under a grand, and are great values. Details available on the Audiomods website.