My Sonic Lab
Ultra Eminent Ex
Introduced 2004$7,495 MSRP
The Ultra Eminent EX sits in the middle of My Sonic Lab's moving-coil cartridge lineup, distinguished from the standard Eminent EX and Hyper Eminent by a much lower internal impedance and output plus a boron cantilever, engineered for fast transient response and precise soundstaging. My Sonic Lab was founded in 2004 by Yoshio Matsudaira in Japan and is known for its proprietary SH-μX coil core technology.
MSRP
$7,495
Used market · Good
$7,245
-3% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $7,495 at launch to $7,245 today.
Specifications
- Body
- Titanium (with Extra Super Duralumin A7075 alloy cited by some retailers)
- Price
- $6,995 (Galibier Design, effective Jan 2025); $7,495 (Music Direct listing)
- Stylus
- Semi-line contact, 3µm × 30µm
- Weight
- 9.5 g
- Coil core
- SH-μX core with neodymium magnet, pure copper core
- Cantilever
- Boron
- Generator type
- Moving-coil
- Output voltage
- 0.3 mV at 1 kHz
- Tracking force
- 2 g
- Published price
- 7495 USD
- Dynamic compliance
- 10 µm/mN
- Frequency response
- 10–50 kHz
- Internal impedance
- 0.6 Ω (DCR)
- Recommended loading
- 100–800 Ω, ideal around 400 Ω
- Recommended tracking force
- 1.9–2.2 g
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