Audio-Technica ART-1000X Flagship MC Cartridge | Ultimate Moving Coil Cartridge

Whest Audio

£4400

See it playing on @ whestworld Instagram The Audio-Technica ART-1000X is Audio-Technica's most advanced and technologically ambitious moving coil cartridge — a tour-de-force of transducer engineering that redefines what an MC cartridge is capable of. At the heart of the ART-1000X is a uniquely engineered direct-power generator : instead of attaching the coil to the cantilever (as in conventional MC design), the coil itself is positioned at the stylus tip, as close to the groove as physically possible. The result is a vanishingly low-mass moving system with an extraordinary ability to trace gro

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