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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

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par
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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.

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