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Audio Technica AT-MCD1

2026-06-152026-06-15 press release

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan | 2026 – The AT-MCD1, Audio-Technica’s flagship iron-core moving coil cartridge, is one of the finest phono cartridges ever produced, designed to surpass even the outstanding expressiveness of our limited-edition AT-MC2022 60th anniversary model. The AT-MCD1 has been designated an Audio-Technica Excellence Product, a recognition that identifies products that meet our highest standards of high-fidelity performance. With its unified stylus-cantilever, formed from a single lab-grown diamond, the AT-MC2022 offered exceptional responsiveness and transparency, establishing a new benchmark for analog playback. The AT-MCD1 inherits that one-piece diamond construction but…

New Ortofon Century MC Cartridge

2018-05-142018-05-09 News Release

The MC Century represents the absolute top of Moving Coil cartridges. This state of the art product is truly exemplary of the highest degree of performance possible in contemporary analogue playback technology. The MC Century represents numerous Ortofon design elements and ideals: The housing and the body of the cartridge are made in Titanium with SLM technique. High performance iron-cobalt alloy is applied for some parts of the magnet system. The armature damping system provides complete elimination of unwanted resonance. Ortofon Replicant 100 diamond, thin and light, with an extraordinarily…