While there I met young Yosuke Koizuma, now listed as “Audio Technica cartridge engineer” who honored me by bringing to the factory his super 45rpm record collection. The ART-1000 is still available from some sellers for $4,999. When Audio-Technica put into production the AT ART-1000 I flew to Tokyo to both watch it being built and to better get to know the company. But CDs got in the way before Miyata could realize his dream, so he turned his attention to designing headphones. The downside is added mass directly atop the stylus and an open architecture that made the coils vulnerable to damage. Miyata’s dream, (some thirty years earlier!) had been to produce a cartridge with coils mounted directly atop the stylus, so stylus movement would directly translate to signal generation, the benefits of which should be obvious to all reading this. So why do that? Partly for the prestige, partly for the “trickle down” tech benefits and partly probably just to push the envelope and see far it can go and to where it leads.īack in 2016 Audio-Technica released the ART 1000 cartridge, designed by the then retired Mitsuo Miyata along with his young successor then Product Development manager Yosuke Koizumi. Yet both lavish time, attention, and financial resources on the far smaller (it would be fair to say “tiny”) top of the market, where ultra-precision hand-built limited-edition models garner more attention than sales from audio enthusiasts. It’s no secret that the world’s two largest cartridge manufacturers, Audio-Technica and Ortofon generate most of their cartridge income from inexpensive, mass-produced units, many of which they supply OEM to turntable manufacturers.
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