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New Audio Technica ART9XA Up and Running.....

Just installed a new AT ART9XA cartridge and it sounds excellent, so enjoyable listening to music with this cartridge. It replaces a highly regarded LOMC that was an upgrade from my original ART9.
The ART9XA beats the "highly regarded" one.

The XA is the lower output air core version of the new ART9 series having .2 mv output vs. the new ART9XI with .5 mv.
The XA also has a shibata profile vs. the SLC of the XI.

Hat's off to the threads on this forum that started the legend of the ART9 (Pani and Oregon Pappa) 

I am loving my recordings more than ever with the new XA. Peace.  
avanti1960
dibsinfo
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Thanks @avanti1960 - I have EAR 834P phono which can easily do 68db on MC, which I think should be able to handle the XA. But my concern is again the Shibata stylus and not sure why they did that instead of SL My current cart is AT-OC9XSL and its amazing cart and wanted to upgrade and this was a obvious choice in AT, But the Shibata is something I am little skeptical about. 

Open for other suggestions

avanti1960 OP
1,472 posts
 

the shibata sounds awesome after it is burned in and burnished- e.g. 30 hours. smooth as silk and all the detail you could want.

sns
3,198 posts
 

@avanti1960 Good to hear! You're inspiring me to get around to installing and listening to my XA and Thoress PS.

par
7 posts
 

Just got an ART9XA.

On my phono amp I can have 64 db or 70 db of gain - a switch on the front of the phono amp is selected.

My own experience has been that the ART9XA sounds so much better, in my system in any case, when I have 70 dB of gain - "light and day difference".

As has been stated previously in this thread higher phono gain really brings rewards - in my system I was not so impressed with the ART9XA when only using 64 dB of gain.

avanti1960 OP
1,472 posts
 

congrats ! 

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