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RE: Audio Technica ART9 a good move from DV XXIIMk2?

Posted by Dave Garretson (A) on November 25, 2014 at 08:25:56

In Reply to: RE: Audio Technica ART9 a good move from DV XXIIMk2? posted by eduardoo on November 24, 2014 at 18:37:43:

It sounds more natural and refined than I expected from AT. It easily surpasses the few MCs that I've recently owned(Lyra Helikon, AQ7000 Fe5, Denon DL-S1). Very resolving, spatial, extended at both extremes of FR, neutral, and dynamic without being forced or up front.

Assuming that your Accuphase is reasonably quiet you should be fine with 68db of phono gain. With the Pass XP-25 ART7 works well at 76db or 66db, with a modest increase in preamp volume necessary at 66db phono.

The big question is whether the ART9 is any better. I would speculate that the higher-output user-friendly ART9 was introduced to reach a broader market, and that the lower-output ART7 sounds better owing to its non-permeable coil formers. Reportedly the later higher-output iterations of the similar Ortofon MC2000 were not as good as the original version with miniscule output. I'll go with along with this story until shown otherwise.

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