One of the finest moving coils Audio Technica ever built. From their archives.
The limited-edition AT50ANV has a unique air-core design that employs a non-magnetic armature for the coil frame, yielding exquisite resolution of fine musical detail and a natural, transparent, spacious sound. Its new magnetic proprietary circuit design and neodymium magnets deliver almost twice the output of previous cartridges for extremely low noise and improved bass response.
Additional details include a solid boron cantilever with a specially designed line contact stylus, a machined titanium base and aluminum and titanium body components, OFC 7N wiring and other enhancements. This model comes in a wooden presentation case with the 50th anniversary logo engraved into the wood.
This is a 0 hour cartridge with a Sound Smith styli that is the equivalent quality replacement to the factory on. Mounted up long enough to verify condition, and back in the box. Comes with box, stylus guard, manual, and accessories.
A high performance cartridge capable of competing with ones costing thousands of dollars, and at an affordable price.
$950
hard to come up with a MSRP as it was a Japanese domestic cartridge. Have seen that range to be from $1750 to $2000. Far cheaper than the new ART 1000! Which displaced the 50 ANV as Audio Technica top of the line offering.
