Uncover Information on Vinyl LPs You've Never Gotten to Hear: Japanese-Made My Sonic Lab Eminent EX MC Phono Cartridge Plays with Beguiling Detail, Tonality, and Clarity

Fast responsiveness, unimpeded clarity, accurate phrasing, tremendous power, smile-inducing degrees of detail and tonality: The My Sonic Lab Eminent EX MC phono cartridge would qualify as most audio companies' flagship model – if they were that lucky. Your experience at uncovering fresh strata of information on LPs you think you know by heart starts here. Hand-made in Japan by iconic cartridge designer Yoshio Matsudaira, Eminent EX employs a SH-μX core, Extra Super Duralumin A7075 alloy body, Super Duralumin cantilever, and semi-line contact stylus to deliver luxurious analog performance that makes playing vinyl LPs an experience on par with traveling to an exotic land. Your ticket to repeat escapism awaits.

"My Sonic Lab's Eminent EX is among the finest, most skillfully balanced cartridges I've heard."
—Michael Fremer, Stereophile

"If Mercury Records had designed a cartridge that captured the Living Presence sound, it would have been the My Sonic Labs. From the moment the needle hits the groove, things sound 'alive!' Not only does this playback device have more zap and dynamics, it also has a more liquid sound, and is so genuinely seductive you might well buy it on first listen."
—Harry Pearson, The Absolute Sound

Four Decades of Cartridge-Building Expertise: My Sonic Lab
My Sonic Lab cartridges are the labors of master cartridge designer Yoshio Matsudaira seeking natural reproduction by minimizing signal loss, internal distortion, and phase distortion. All of the company's cartridges utilize Matsudaira's unique SH-μX magnetic core, a special material with higher permeability and flux density than the typical iron core material used in MC cartridges. It also allows My Sonic Lab to use fewer coil windings than other MC cartridges, minimizing music-robbing distortions and maximizing signal output. The high-efficiency approach translates into wide dynamic range, fast transient response, low distortion, and a high signal-to-noise ratio.

Internal impedance: 1.0Ω
Output voltage: 0.4mV
Compliance: 10x10-6cm/dyen
Weight: 9.5g
Recommended tracking force: 1.9-2.2g
Recommended loading: 100-800Ω (ideal is around 400Ω)