Steve - Since you have the VPI Fatboy arm I thought you might be interested in comments I heard at last year's AXPONA directly from Harry Weisfeld about the AT ART1000 on that arm. It's one of his favorites and he said that it compares well against the Lyra Atlas which retails at $12K... not that they sound the same but that it competes in the same league of performance. He really likes the direct coupling that AT achieves by having the moving coils directly over the stylus tip on their ART1000. Quite an amazing achievement and surprising that they can offer it at $5K retail given today's market with stratospherically priced cartridges.
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