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EMT Debuts New "Novel" Moving Coil Cartridge Line

Michael Fremer  |  Aug 3, 2021

Based upon six years of electro-mechanical analysis EMT's new "Novel" moving coil cartridge line features a new multi-layer core transducer that includes a sapphire cantilever inserted within a coated high-strength titanium structure and a double-layer core designed to reduce eddy current loss. The stylus is a "multi-radial diamond.

The three models in the line are the JSD Novel Gold featuring gold coils, the JSD Novel Titan featuring a titanium body and silver coils and the TSD Novel integrated within a plug-in head shell. It incorporates a magnesium body and copper coils.

Prices and further specification were not provided in the announcement.

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dial's picture
Submitted by dial on Wed, 2021-08-04 04:40

I'm sure it'll be expensive.

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Submitted by thorenssme on Wed, 2021-08-04 09:03

But I'm guessing these are not coming in UNDER the prices of the JSD series. Happy they are making new products though.

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Submitted by PeterPani on Wed, 2021-08-04 22:51

cartridges come and go. But a classic EMT (like this might be) stays in the groove.
Thank you!, Art Dudley in analog heaven for insisting on the EMT OFD 25 in many articles, up to the day I gave up and bought it and had it refurbished by EMT. Every time I play an old mono with the OFD I am grateful to him up there!

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Submitted by Glotz on Thu, 2021-08-05 11:20

and super jealous of Peter! I'm sure Art is listening right along with your!

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Submitted by Glotz on Thu, 2021-08-05 11:21

and super jealous of Peter! I'm sure Art is listening right along with your!

dial's picture
Submitted by dial on Sun, 2021-08-15 15:29

I wonder why they don't produce MC cartridges with replaceable stylus anymore.

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Submitted by volvic on Tue, 2021-08-17 19:27

Did they ever? My memory doesn’t go that far back. Never saw an MC with an interchangeable stylus. BTW have always wanted an EMT cartridge, come to think of it also a 938 as well.

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Submitted by dial on Thu, 2021-08-19 06:35

EMT never but for pro cartridges I think that was a good idea. In the past, Audio Technica (with the ATN3100, ATN3200, AT3050, AT3070, AT3150, AT3250, AT30E, AT30HE, AT31E, ATUL3, ATUL5, AT312P, AT3070, AT3230), (they also build some for Luxman, Sony, Braun, Dual, Sansui, Yamaha and perhaps others), Azden GM1E,Benz MC-5, Denon DL80, Empire MC-5M, Excel MC100E, Ortofon MC100 & MC200, Pioneer PC-3MC, PC-4MC, PC-5MC, PC-6MC, PC31MC, PC41MC,
Sansui AT-3100S, Satin: M117, M118, 18BX, M5-45, Signet MKN 55e, MKN 66e & Sony VC-7P, VC-8E, XL-MC1 were designed I think only as medium output cartridges with replaceable stylus. I think this was a good idea. Production stopped due to the arrival of the CD.

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Submitted by dial on Wed, 2021-08-25 13:27

I've seen on 'turntable needles' that the entire Sony XL-MC series (1 to 3) also were with replacable stylus ; they've got the one for the top of the line X3 for 250 $. On ViRa USA High End (home of famous radial-tangent tonearms and Aidas cartridges, all High End), they recently sold a XL-MC3 SL for only 275$ with headshell.

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