Audio-Technica
AT-ART1000x
The AT-ART1000 ("ART" for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer) is Audio-Technica's handmade-in-Japan flagship phono cartridge, designed by the then-retired Mitsuo Miyata together with successor Yosuke Koizumi. Its signature "Direct Power System" mounts the moving-coil generator directly on top of the stylus tip rather than at the end of a cantilever, an idea first proposed roughly 30 years earlier by Miyata and finally realized after three additional years of R&D.
MSRP
$5,999
Used market · Good
$3,050
MSRP to used market
From $5,999 at launch to $3,050 today.
Specifications
- Price
- $4,999 US
- Stylus
- Special line contact, nude rectangular shank
- Weight
- 11 g
- Cantilever
- 0.26 mm diameter solid boron
- Dimensions
- 17.3 (H) × 17.0 (W) × 25.5 (D) mm
- Body material
- Titanium base with aluminum/injection-molded housing
- Output voltage
- 0.2 mV (1 kHz, 5 cm/sec)
- Tracking force
- Individually measured and supplied per unit, range 2.0–2.5 g
- Published price
- 5999 USD
- Channel separation
- 30 dB at 1 kHz
- Frequency response
- 15–30,000 Hz
- Vertical tracking angle
- 21°
- Static dynamic compliance
- 30×10⁻⁶ cm/dyne static; 12×10⁻⁶ cm/dyne at 100 Hz dynamic
- Coil impedance DC resistance
- 3 Ω at 1 kHz
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