PC-1 Supreme

Air Tight PC-1 Supreme is an optimal combination of low impedance and high output.

“As good as the AT PC-1 is, this new, considerably pricier moving-coil cartridge from Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Cartridge is substantially better. Like the PC-1, the Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Cartridge is a model of low internal impedance and high energy. Killer good on transients top to bottom, with phenomenal grip and definition in the low bass, it is also exceptionally lifelike in the midband, with even more of the gorgeous density of tone color, high resolution, and superior soundstaging that made the Air Tight PC-1 Supreme one of JV’s (Jonathan Valin) mc references. A top contender for best Moving Coil.” – Jonathan Valin, The Absolute Sound, Issue 185

“The PC-1 isn’t just a wonderment in the treble. Its bass is just as remarkable— and in the same ways. On something like Robert Helps’ Steinway on Arthur Berger’s Two Episodes (from New Music for the Piano [CRI), you not only get the fullness of timbre of the big pedaled chords; you get the full energy with which Helps sounds them, the power with which they are projected and sustained. Many moving-coil cartridges (many stereo systems, for that matter) make big instruments like concert grands sound as if they’re getting smaller in volume, power, and projection as they descend in frequency, as if their sound is being funneled to a point, like a “V.” The PC-1 reproduces deep sustained notes as they sound in life—expansive, bottomless, and open, like an upside-down “V.” The Absolute Sound review of the PC-1 Supreme can be read here.

The Parttimaudiophile PC-1 Supreme review can be read here.

• OPTIMAL COMBINATION OF LOW IMPEDANCE & HIGH OUTPUT
• Expanded bandwidth & extended dynamic range present clearer life-like soundstage, whilst improvement in transient & phase characteristics reproduces ultra-heavy bass with highest resolutions
• Epoch-making Hi-µ core material SH-µX recently developed offers high µ amount to realise high-efficiency magnetic circuitry
• Thick wires help reduce winding Nos. in coil, thus achieving astounding low internal impedance