Audio-Technica AT-5
Almost nothing is documented about the Audio-Technica AT-5. The Archive's research file on this model is empty. There is no spec sheet, no manual, no period review, no confirmed production years, and no original price. Even the product type isn't confirmed in any surviving record we've located. Given Audio-Technica's naming conventions of the era it was likely a phono cartridge, but that is inference, not documentation, and no source we have verifies it.
The record shows very little. A 1978 HiFI-Stereo (p.97) listing shows a phono cartridge with 25 dB channel separation at 1 kHz and a tracking force range of 0.75-1.5 g, but attributing any of those figures to the AT-5 would be guesswork. Period reviews from Audio (August 1973, p.35) and HiFI-Stereo (1977, p.81) cover other Audio-Technica models of the era. The AT-5 itself is not mentioned in any of the magazine review chunks.
If you own an AT-5, have a period brochure, or have seen one in a vintage catalog, that would fill a gap. For now, this page just marks the model's place in the archive. The documentation hasn't surfaced.
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