EMT and/or Koetsu with Shindo pre/phono and Kuzma Ref 313 arm....

My recommendation would be to upgrade the arm first - Kuzma 4Point11 will improve the performance of your existing TT/cartridge fundamentally across the board. Do the cartridge later.

Cartridge options - Kuza CAR50 ( massively better than CAR40 and underrrated in my view ), Phasemation - very even handed balance across the spectrum, Mysonic - more dynamic, a little coloured through the midrange in my experience The best choice is going to be determined by any speaker colourations that exist, and therefore whatb are you trying to achieve in the final presentation.

In my view the EMT's are quite course and not particularly transparent compared to these others.

Please can I piggy back on this thread with some related questions? I'm interested in the EMT cartridges and know nothing, really, about them. An acquaintance recently advised me to skip the whole SPU thing and get an EMT TSD 15. My 'table is a Garrard 401, my arm a Jelco 750L 12".

Questions:
1. Is the Jelco "good enough" for an EMT TSD 15?
2. Can somebody 'splain the EMT range to me? The website is a mystery and I keep running across references to cartridges that seem to have been produced in limited quantities and the replaced with a newer different model. What's up with that?
3. What's the advice about replacing the Jelco? I'm sure there are lots better arms out there, at a price...
Thanks, in advance, for any information or counsel anyone is willing to share.

I’m interested in the EMT cartridges and know nothing, really, about them.

I tried to put together some information about EMT carts in this topic with links, pictures etc @markusthenaimnut

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My 'table is a Garrard 401, my arm a Jelco 750L 12".

The 850L is a significant upgrade on the 750L. I have 4 of them on three 401s.

Mr. Yoshio Matsudaira (MY) designs high-performance cartridges, and has designed for Koetsu (Onyx), Air Tight, Miyabi, etc.

Miyabi cartridges designed by Haruo Takeda, his latest design for 47 Labs was distributed by Yoshi Segoshi (Sakura Systems).

I don’t think that Yoshio Matsudaira did anything for Miyabi. Am I missed something?

Haruo Takeda (Miyabi), the former Audio-Technica employee who went on to design and build phono cartridges for Krell, Mark Levinson, and Cello, and who even lent his talents to Koetsu in that company’s early days.