Like all VMx cartridges, the AT-VM670xSP features PCUHD® (Pure Copper Ultra High Drawability), resulting in richer, more nuanced audio reproduction. The number of coil turns has also been slightly reduced to improve transient response, allowing the cartridge to react more quickly to signal changes for stunningly clean music with lifelike immediacy. The stylus’s 3.0 mil curvature radius makes it an excellent choice for playing 78s from many different eras.

We’ve also added threaded inserts to the body of each VMx cartridge, making it easier to mount (just two screws required), especially to the integrated tonearms common on high-end turntables. And a new V-cut in the stylus’s flip-up protector provides quick reference of the stylus position, serving as a guide when lowering the stylus onto a record.

Easy to Install and Use

Each AT-VMx cartridge body has threaded inserts, enabling it to be mounted to a headshell with just two screws – no nuts required. And the redesigned stylus protector now includes a V-cut for easy reference of the stylus’s position when lowering it onto a record.

Highly Efficient Generator

The paratoroidal coil construction of the cartridge’s generator – two PCUHD coils per channel, one stacked behind the other – greatly improves electromagnetic performance, while a slight reduction in coil turns* enhances transient response for clean, lifelike sound.

*Compared to VM series cartridges.

Interchangeable Styli

Since all AT-VMx and VM Series cartridges share the same body design and have a removable stylus, you can use almost any AT-VMNx or VMN replacement stylus* with any VMx or VM cartridge for easy experimentation with sound characteristics.

AT-VMN10xCB (conical/bonded/aluminum cantilever)
AT-VMN20xEB (elliptical/bonded/aluminum cantilever)
AT-VMN30xEN (elliptical/nude/aluminum cantilever)
AT-VMN40xML (microlinear/nude/aluminum cantilever)
AT-VMN45xML (microlinear/nude/boron cantilever)
AT-VMN50xSH (Shibata/nude/boron cantilever)
AT-VMN60xSL (special line contact/nude/boron cantilever)

* Excludes mono models

All in the Design

The Vertical Dual Magnet (VM) design closely mirrors the cutter head used t make the vinyl master.

The standard cutter head (used to record the vinyl master) uses two transducer coils, mounted perpendicular to each other at 45 degee from horizontal, to cut the channel: one in each wall to the 90 degree record groove.

The AT-VMx cartridges use the same 90 degree V-Shape configuration as the cutter head.  This way, the cartridge achieves accurate tracking, excellent channel separation, high definition of the stereo image and extreme clarity over the entire audio spectrum.

Features

• AT-VMx dual moving magnet cartridge with 3.0 mil conical bonded stylus
  
  
• 3.0 mil conical bonded stylus designed for playing 78 RPM records
  
  
• Paratoroidal coils improve generating efficiency for enhanced transient response
  
  
• PCUHD (Pure Copper Ultra High Drawability) coils – and fewer coil turns – deliver highly responsive, three-dimensional sound reproduction with excellent transient response
  
  
• Threaded inserts make cartridge easier to mount, especially to integrated tonearms
  
  
• V-cut in the flip-up stylus protector shows stylus position, serving as a guide for lowering the stylus onto a record
  
  
• Durable low-resonance polymer housing
  
  
• Aluminum cantilever
  
  
• Mono body terminating left and right channels reduces surface noise
  
  
• Compatible with any turntable headshell that accepts 1/2" cartridges

Specifications