An air core type MC cartridge that precisely reproduces the sound field.
AT-ART9XA is an air-core type MC cartridge with a Shibata needle mounted on a boron cantilever. ART in the product model number is an abbreviation for Audio-Technica Reference Transducer, and it is used only in special cartridges. The air core type is not affected by magnetic distortion, so a natural tone color and precise sound field expression are possible. On the other hand, the output voltage is difficult to obtain, but with this product, the output voltage has been improved by newly designing the coil winding frame, and 0.2 mV (1 kHz, 5 cm/sec) has been obtained.
High fidelity transmission using PCOCC for the coil. PCOCC does not generate grain boundaries in the transmission direction, enabling more pure transmission.