Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9?

I did upgrade from ART9. I was not after a $5k cartridge to replace the ART9. I explored reasonably priced cartridges. The only ones I found I really liked after the ART9 are EMT TSD-75/HSD-006, Anamighty Sound Denon 103 Level 3 and Decca Jubilee (more expensive than my planned budget). I currently use EMT HSD-006. Natural, neutral and dynamic. Very happy! 

I know you would want to know the difference bettween ART9 and EMT. EMT is more effortless and flatter frequency response. It plumbs deeper into lows and the midrange is classic vinyl like, full and clear. ART9 sounded smaller and thinner than EMT. It has a more modern sounding midrange (a bit more CD like than EMT). Another area the EMT is remarkable is "quietness". The background is very quiet with EMT playing. Probably that gives the additional headroom to the sound.

Dear @uberwaltz  : @slaw  : obviously that the ART 7 in LPGear is original. Now this cartridge was out of production by more than two years but seems to me that AT is manufacturing it again or are samples from their last production:

https://www.audio-technica.com/cgi-bin/product_search/cartridges/cartridges.pl?lang=eng

Of course that has the AT whole warranty and you can try it.

However for the @OP I think that Lyra Etna is extremely hard to beat and can't go wrong with.

R.

pani +1

Just to correct myself:  I wrote that the output of the ART7 is 0.24mV.  After I posted, some others mentioned the output at 0.12mV.  Those persons are correct; the output is 0.12mV, not 0.24mV.  Sorry about that. However, for what it's worth, I run mine through the MC inputs of a Manley Steelhead, using the 65db gain setting.  The linestage of the Steelhead adds no additional gain, so 65db is all there is, and I have enough output to drive my Beveridge amplifiers as loud as I might ever want, or louder.  For comparison, my Ortofon MC2000 with a stated output of .05mV cannot cut the mustard in this same system; the gain is inadequate.  (I would need a SUT into the MM inputs.) Results depend not only upon phono and linestage gain but also upon the input sensitivity of the amplifier and the efficiency of the speakers.  For each of us, the gain requirement at the input phono stage end can be quite different when you crank in those other factors.
Raul, isn't the Lyra Etna a very expensive cartridge, well above $5K?  I'm sure it's quite good.

Chak
I would have said the art7 was a worthy alternative to the art9.
The 20Sla not so much......