{"id":501357,"date":"2026-06-15T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501357\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:15:10","slug":"audio-technica-unveils-at-mcd1-flagship-moving-coil-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501357\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio-Technica unveils AT-MCD1 flagship moving coil cartridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hand-finished in Japan with a lab-grown diamond stylus-cantilever design.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Audio-Technica \u2013 Website<\/p>\n<p>Audio-Technica has revealed the AT-MCD1, a new flagship moving coil cartridge that builds on the technology developed for the company\u2019s limited-edition 60th anniversary cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>At the centre of the design is a unified stylus-cantilever constructed from a lab-grown diamond, a feature shared with the anniversary model. The cartridge body combines titanium and aluminium construction with an elastomer undercover intended to reduce unwanted high-frequency resonances.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details include hand-crafted ion plating for improved durability and a mirror-like finish, while each unit is hand-finished in Japan and engraved with an individual serial number.<\/p>\n<p>The AT-MCD1 is packaged in a solid cherry wood case and positioned as one of the company\u2019s most premium audio products to date.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the AT-MCD1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audio-technica.com\/en-gb\/at-mcd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hand-finished in Japan with a lab-grown diamond stylus-cantilever design. Photo credit: Audio-Technica \u2013 Website Audio-Technica has revealed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-501357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}