AT50ANV - Audio Technica's 50th Anniversary MC Cartridge

[tiefbassuebertr]

Is this cartridge the successor of the ART-1 (ART1, ARTI, ART-ONE, ART-I), Audio Technica's 25th Anniversary cartridge ??
here some URLs:
AT50ANV (short form data-sheet)
Audio Technica 50th Anniversary
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Sondermodelle zum 50. Geburtstag von Audio-Technica! - AT50ANV | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Perhaps this cartridge blown away anything MC known before. By the brand "Audio Technica" this is very likely. I recall, that 1987 this was the case by the model "Art 1".

Here some URLs to the "ART-1":
Article | Audio Technica Reference | Page133 - April1989 - Gramophone Archive
VANTAGEaudio information sheet, Audio Technica ART-1 MC Cartridge
Pulled The Trigger on a Garrard 401 - AudioKarma.org Home Audio Stereo Discussion Forums

There is also a 50th Anniversary MM cartridge:
model AT150ANV

[h_a]

Hi,

thanks for the info! Always nice to see new products in this field, though these pieces are likely to be only shortly offered and not regularly available. At that price that will concern only few anyway.

Hannes

[tiefbassuebertr]

Originally Posted by h_a

Hi,

thanks for the info! Always nice to see new products in this field, though these pieces are likely to be only shortly offered and not regularly available. At that price that will concern only few anyway.

Hannes

audio-technica AT50ANV MC Cartridge | eBay

actually it is a very reasonable price and (like already by Art-1) probably a very good price to quality ratio.
Have a look to the prices from Lyra's MC cartridges:
PhonoPhono - - Lyra
LYRAAUDIO.COM
At least in Germany this cartridges are much more expensive.