AT150ANV and AT50ANV LPgear

$1788.00 for the AT50ANV MC cart and $799.99 on the AT150ANV MM cart. Seems to be about the going price for the carts. I do wonder if its worth it and would like to see testing. As they are well out of my price range and gear. Interesting to see a New cart. For know just interesting carts to look at.

AT150ANV
Specifications
- Type: Moving Magnet VM Dual Magnet Stereo
- Frequency response: 10 ~ 23,000 Hz
- Output voltage: 4 mV (1kHz, 5 cm/sec.)
- Channel separation: 30 dB (1kHz)
- Output balance: 0.8 dB (1kHz)
- Tracking force: 1.2 ~ 1.8 g (1.5 g standard)
- Coil impedance: 2.3 kΩ (1kHz)
- DC resistance: 530 ΩΩ
- Rec. load impedance: 47 kΩ
- Coil inductance: 350 mH (1kHz)
- Static compliance: 40 × 10-6 cm/dyne
- Dynamic compliance: 10 × 10-6 cm/dyne (100Hz)
- Stylus: Micro linear (ML)
- Cantilever: φ0.4 mm Sapphire pipe
- Vertical tracking angle: 23 °
- Dimensions: 17.3(H) × 17(W) × 28.2(D) mm
- Weight: 9.5 g

AT50ANV
Specifications
- Type: Non Magnetic Core MC
- Frequency response: 15 ~ 50,000 Hz
- Output voltage: 0.12 mV (1kHz, 3.54 cm/sec.)
- Channel separation: 30 dB (1kHz)
- Output balance: 0.5 dB (1kHz)
- Tracking force: 1.6 ~ 2.0 g (1.8 g standard)
- Coil impedance: 11.5 Ω (1kHz)
- DC resistance: 11.5 ΩΩ
- Rec. load impedance: Min. 100 Ω (when head amplifier connected)
- Coil inductance: 7 μH (1kHz)
- Static compliance: 35 × 10-6 cm/dyne
- Dynamic compliance: 10 × 10-6 cm/dyne (100Hz)
- Stylus: Special line contact stylus
- Cantilever: Diameter 0.26mm solid boron
- Vertical tracking angle: 23°
- Dimensions: 17.3(H) × 17(W) × 25.6(L) mm
- Weight: 10.0 g

Insane prices. I'd like to visit Japan and do some shopping.

Yeah they are quite high, well out of my price range. I do wonder what the going rate in Japan is and how much import inflation there is

Seems about right when you consider what is in there...

Start with an AT150MLx body - official price $500

Then you replace the boron cantilever with a sapphire cantilever maybe an additional $100? (that would seem a reasonable premium, given the going rates at retippers)

But here is the kicker - the specs say sapphire PIPE - not sapphire ROD....
Assuming there hasn't been a mistranslation from the Japanese, that would have the cantilever mass.... And probably double the cost of the stylus...

Then they rebuilt the cartridge body - made it out of titanium for better vibration control... and filled it with some sort of damping material...

Asking around $700 to $800 sounds like value.

If this beastie performs up to the potential implied by these specifications, there are a bunch of MC's costing up to 10x its price who are going to be running scared!

This is a serious attempt at the MM high end crown - and the previous contenders for that crown were among the best cartridges ever made.

Waiting on the first reviews....

bye for now

David

David,

The AT 150 ANV was a limited production.

It has been discontinued, it was essentially a collector's edition.

:tears:

I don't think it's available yet. They just announced them recently didn't they?
http://www.lpgear.com/product/ATC0150ANV.html

http://www.lpgear.com/product/AT50ANV.html

If limited run I would guess LP gear ordered case of em' and are going to sell them once they get them from overseas.
Very interested it how it does.

Clearly, a fully and totally re-tooled 150 from all aspects of construction and not just a pretty packaging effort. AT seldom drops the ball on their Cartridge products. My prediction is once the word gets out how great this one just might be, you'll see demand ---and retail pricing jump up.