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My Sonic Lab Eminent MC Cartridge

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Joining our range of the best analogue products in the world is the My Sonic Lab MC phono cartridges, from Japan. Unlike most others who sell products from companies with the largest marketing budget (regardless of actual sound quality) we stock products purely on merit of their sound quality and company ethos - exceptional products without the need for hype.

Hence, we bring you the My Sonic Lab Eminent stereo MC phono cartridge.

Experience what the My Sonic Lab Eminent has to offer, and why it has captivated many.

The "My" in the company name refers to the initials of its designer, Mr. Y. Matsudaira.

Mr. Matsudaira set up My Sonic Lab in 2003 but has been in the business for over forty years. He has an illustrious career as a cartridge, tonearm, and phono stage designer, starting from Tokyo Sound in 1959, later on at Supex, and at Audio Craft as chief engineer.

With My Sonic Lab, Mr. Matsudaira is fulfilling his design goals of producing a moving coil cartridge with very low internal impedance. With this design, Mr. Matsudaira feels that the energy producing potential of an MC cartridge is fully realized.

Matsudaira uses an ultra high-μ material which he has named SH-μX. This material allows My Sonic Lab to significantly reduce the amount of coil wire required to give a decent output level. With the reduction in the amount of coil wire comes greater low-level resolution.

The Eminent MC has an internal impedance of 1.8 ohms combined with a healthy 0.5mV output. It includes a neodymium SH-muX magnet, `dual structure' super duralumin cantilever and a semi-line contact stylus.

Tracking force between 2 and 2.2grams is recommended.

Medium to heavy mass arm would be ideal.

My Sonic Lab Eminent - SPECIFICATIONS:
Type	Low-impedance moving coil cartridge
Frequency response	10 - 50,000 Hz
Output voltage	0.5mV/1kHz
Internal impedance	1.8 Ω
Loading	100 - 800Ω (specifically, about 400Ω is recommended)
Core material	SH-μX
Magnet	Neodynium #50
Stylus pressure	2 - 2.2g
Cantilever	Super-duralmine dual structure
Stylus tip	Semi-line contact (3μm x 30μm)
Channel balance	within 0.5dB (1kHz)
Crosstalk	more than 30dB (1kHz)
Terminals	shiny rhodium-plated pins
Weight	9g

My Sonic Lab Reviews

Rising Suns : A review of Japanese high-end cartridges : Audio-Tekne MC-6310 and My Sonic Lab - Eminent

"My Sonic Lab ? clear stereo separation, wide bandwidth, crisp incision and a galloping dynamic range - alongside the less easily described attributes of 'musicality'. The reviewer's glossary can be tossed out of the window when you find a cartridge this good, which just sounds 'right' ! "

..."While the Audio Tekne MC-6310 gives a traditional mellow, sweet euphonic sound that can beguile, reminiscent of smooth moving-coil classics, the My Sonic Lab Eminent takes the art of vinyl reproduction a step beyond what many will have heard, balancing power, dynamics with incredible resolution and musicality. This is a cartridge that comes heartily recommended."

My Sonic Lab - Eminent MC Cartridge

"This is a powerful MC with impressive low-level resolution and a sense of speed that is quite rare."

"It's crisp and clear yet also muscular and hard hitting ..."

"... the guitar and bass portrayed with a chunkiness that makes them seem all the more real."

"There's no shortage of power and weight"

"There's no denying the strong sense of pace that the Eminent brings to the party and the degree to which it responds to each recording. This is a first class moving coil that deserves to be a front-runner for any one with this sort of budget."

Continuum Caliburn Reference Turntable SystemIt simply has no peers this is a significant step forward in analogue design and as such can only be compared to live music which is no bad thing. It may not be affordable but then the best in the world seldom is. The select few who can afford it are in for a rollercoaster ride through their album collections.

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‘Flagship model from Lyra replaces the flagship Parnassus DCt and comprises a one-piece titanium body and diamond-coated boron cantilever, tipped with the original Lyra line-contact stylus. A world reference pick-up cartridge.'

Enstein The Turntable Choice S/E To be candid with you, this phono stage is a bit of a bargain. I know that we are still talking about a serious chunk of pocket change here but so often in the hifi world products are hyped and touted as the next best thing. It happens all of the time so when a genuine product comes along which re-defines a category at its price point it dosn't always create a tsunami of reviews.

Schroder The Reference To illustrate, I recently auditioned what may be the finest-sounding analog rig I've ever heard: a DPS 'table mated with a Schroder tonearm and an Allaerts cartridge. These three companies didn't even exist a few years ago. The Scroder createsa startling absence of mechanical sound.

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My Sonic Lab Eminent - SPECIFICATIONS:

Rising Suns : A review of Japanese high-end cartridges : Audio-Tekne MC-6310 and My Sonic Lab - Eminent

My Sonic Lab - Eminent MC Cartridge