{"title":"EMT","description":"\u003cp\u003eEMT — Elektro-Mess-Technik — was founded in 1940 in Berlin by Wilhelm Franz, an engineer building measurement equipment for broadcast studios. After the war, the company relocated to Lahr in the Black Forest, and by 1959 the EMT 927 and 930 professional turntables had become fixtures of broadcast facilities across Europe and the Americas. If a serious European radio station cut a record between 1955 and 1985, there is a very good chance an EMT machine played it back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe cartridges came out of the same discipline. When broadcast engineers began asking EMT for a matched pickup rather than sourcing one from a third party, the company built its own generator. The result was the TSD 15 — a moving-coil cartridge, released in 1965, that went on to be produced in the tens of thousands and installed in broadcast studios worldwide. Every EMT hi-fi cartridge on this page traces its lineage to that generator. The Tondose family — the TSD, TMD, and TND cartridges — carries the broadcast form factor and the direct broadcast connection standard forward. The HSD and HMD are the hi-fi renderings of the same principle in a body sized for a hi-fi tonearm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1965 EMT could not have foreseen how the audio industry would change around it. Ownership passed through several hands over the decades — a Belgian broadcast group, then private ownership under Walter Derrer, and after his death in 2007 to Jules Limon, who moved the company under the umbrella of EMT International in Switzerland. In 2014, cartridge production formally transferred to HiFiction AG — the Swiss engineering house led by Micha Huber, better known to analog listeners as the designer behind the Thales tonearms and turntables. Since 2014, every EMT cartridge has been designed and built by hand in Winterthur.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2006 JSD series was the first cartridge line built specifically for the modern high-end home system rather than the broadcast console — the same generator discipline in a body tuned for the reference room. The 2021 Novel Technology introduced a multi-layer core transducer with a titanium and sapphire cantilever assembly. The 2022 return of the 928 turntable and the 909 and 912 tonearms, in updated form, brought the full EMT front end back into current production for the first time in decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat Alma carries is the complete lineup. The 928 II battery-powered turntable and the 909 and 912 tonearms — the reference-tier records-first analog front end. The 128 Micro Tube Phonostage and the step-up transformer — the electronics for a proper moving-coil system. The JSD, HSD, and HMD hi-fi cartridges. And the Tondose broadcast cartridges — TSD, TMD, TND — for the listener who wants the same generator the studios used, rebuilt today in Switzerland.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"emt-928-ii-battery-powered-turntable","title":"EMT 928 II Battery Powered Turntable","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe EMT 928 II is the current expression of a turntable philosophy the company has held to since the 1950s. A record deck, to EMT, is a piece of precision measuring equipment that happens to make music — a mechanical instrument in which every gram of mass, every decoupling point, and every current path is there for a reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chassis is a solid block of aluminum alloy, milled and finished in Switzerland, resting on four decoupled spherical feet. Total weight of the machine is 23 kilograms, and every one of those kilograms is doing acoustic work — the plinth is not a shelf for the drive, it is part of it. The platter itself is 5.5 kilograms, driven by a 20-watt motor that gets it to speed and holds it there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the 928 II departs from every other turntable in its class is the power supply. The motor and its control electronics run on internal batteries, not on the mains. The charging circuit monitors state automatically and reports through a dual-colour LED. A full charge runs the deck for forty hours at 33 rpm with a ten-hour reserve behind it. The mains hum and RFI that ride the ground of a wall socket never reach the motor — because the motor is never connected to the wall while it is playing a record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe bearings and drive discipline show up in the measurements. Wow and flutter is held to ±0.07% at 33 and 45 rpm on the IEC 386 measurement, and rumble is 85 dB down at 33 rpm on the IEC 98 weighting. Three speeds are provided — 33⅓, 45, and 78 — with speed-up times of 10, 12, and 20 seconds respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tonearm mount is prepared for a 9-inch EMT arm at a mounting distance of 215 to 245 mm. Output is on RCA with a separated tonearm ground. A 12-inch arm — the 912 or 912-HI — can be fitted with the EMT 928\/912 adapter, which mounts the longer arm in the rear position and provides the additional output sockets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 928 II can be ordered as the chassis alone, or as a matched front end — with the EMT 909-HI tonearm, or with the arm and a JSD 6 or JSD Pure Black cartridge already fitted and aligned in Switzerland before shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMT","offers":[{"title":"Turntable Only","offer_id":48938892525787,"sku":null,"price":12995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Package A (w\/ 909-HI)","offer_id":48938892591323,"sku":null,"price":19995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Package B (w\/ 909-HI + JSD 6)","offer_id":48938892624091,"sku":null,"price":22995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Package C (w\/ 909-HI + JSD Pure Black)","offer_id":48938892656859,"sku":null,"price":24995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1363\/6553\/files\/emt-928_orig.jpg?v=1783137520"},{"product_id":"emt-912-hi-tonearm","title":"EMT 912-HI Tonearm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe EMT 912-HI is a 12-inch tonearm designed to carry a hi-fi cartridge — one built for a fixed half-inch mount rather than the removable broadcast Tondose — with the full mechanical discipline of the EMT tonearm program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe construction reads like a small clock. Over 150 individual parts, each machined from solid material — stainless steel for the base and structural elements, aluminum alloy for the moving parts — are assembled by hand at the workbench in Switzerland. The bearings and manufacturing techniques are contemporary; the design principles, the way mass distributes around the pivot and the way the arm addresses the record, follow the reference EMT drew for itself decades ago and has not seen a reason to abandon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe headshell is rigidly fixed — no removable slide, no auxiliary contacts in the signal path — with azimuth adjustment retained for setup. The arm accommodates any EMT hi-fi cartridge in its 8-to-25-gram tracking range. Effective length is 310.15 mm. Effective mass is 11.4 grams. Offset is 17.55 degrees; overhang is 13.15 mm; null points are 120.9 and 66.04 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe audible payoff of a 12-inch arm over a 9-inch is a lower tracking-angle error across the record — meaning cleaner tracking at the outer edge, where transients are most demanding, and a more relaxed presentation at the innermost grooves, where the geometry has traditionally been least kind to the music. The 912-HI delivers this without the mass, resonance, or wiring compromises that a long arm has historically forced on its designer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo termination options are offered: the standard wire outlet with a 20-centimetre lead, or a 5-pin DIN outlet for the customer running a modular phono cabling scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMT","offers":[{"title":"Standard (Wire, 20 cm)","offer_id":48938894754011,"sku":null,"price":9795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"DIN (5-pin)","offer_id":48938895900891,"sku":null,"price":10495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1363\/6553\/files\/emt-912-hi.jpg?v=1783137520"},{"product_id":"emt-909-hi-tonearm","title":"EMT 909-HI Tonearm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe EMT 909-HI is the 9-inch tonearm at the centre of the EMT hi-fi program — the arm the 928 II is prepared for out of the box, and the arm most listeners will pair with a JSD, HSD, or HMD cartridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe engineering follows the same rules as its 12-inch sibling: over 150 individual parts, machined from solid stainless steel and aluminum-alloy blanks, assembled by hand in Switzerland. Modern bearings; a design vocabulary that traces back to the EMT reference of decades ago. The headshell is rigidly fixed — no removable slide, no additional contacts between the cartridge and the tonearm cable — with azimuth adjustment retained for careful setup.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEffective length is 246.75 mm. Effective mass is 10.2 grams. Offset is 22.25 degrees, overhang 16.75 mm, null points 120.9 and 66.04 mm. The arm accommodates any EMT hi-fi cartridge in the 10-to-25-gram tracking range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo termination options are offered: the standard wire outlet with a 20-centimetre lead, or a 5-pin DIN outlet. The choice comes down to the phono cabling scheme the customer already runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaired with the 928 II, or fitted to a compatible high-end turntable already in the room, the 909-HI is the shortest path to a reference EMT front end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMT","offers":[{"title":"Standard (Wire, 20 cm)","offer_id":48938895343835,"sku":null,"price":7995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"DIN (5-pin)","offer_id":48938895933659,"sku":null,"price":8795.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1363\/6553\/files\/emt-909-hi_1.jpg?v=1783137521"},{"product_id":"emt-928-912-adapter","title":"EMT 928\/912 Adapter","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe EMT 928 II is prepared, out of the box, for a 9-inch EMT tonearm. 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The mount geometry is set for the 12-inch EMT arms and preserves the alignment reference the 928 II is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrdering the adapter with the turntable and the 12-inch arm is the cleanest path for a customer who wants the extra effective length — lower tracking-angle error, gentler transient at the outer groove — without compromising the turntable's mechanical discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48938895868123,"sku":null,"price":3495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1363\/6553\/files\/emt-adapter-928-01_1.jpg?v=1783137520"},{"product_id":"emt-912-tonearm","title":"EMT 912 Tonearm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe EMT 912 is the 12-inch professional tonearm — built for the EMT Tondose broadcast cartridges, and optionally configured for the two other headshell standards that historically served the same broadcast facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat separates the professional from the hi-fi variant is the headshell interface. Where the 912-HI carries a fixed hi-fi cartridge, the 912 is designed for a removable Tondose or its equivalent — the mounting that let a broadcast engineer swap a stereo generator for a mono generator, a fresh diamond for a worn one, without disturbing the arm. This is the geometry EMT drew for the 927 and 930 studio turntables, brought forward into a current tonearm that keeps the mechanical discipline the mount was drawn for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe arm is assembled from more than 150 hand-machined parts. Stainless steel base, aluminum-alloy moving elements. Effective mass 11.7 grams. Offset 17.55 degrees, overhang 13.15 mm, null points 120.9 and 66.04 mm. Effective length is 310.15 mm in the Standard and INT mount configurations; the X mount configuration, which places the SME-standard bayonet at a different geometric position, sets effective length to 328.32 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree mount options are offered. Standard receives the EMT Tondose directly. 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The bearing hardware is contemporary; the design vocabulary — the way the arm addresses the record, the way mass distributes around the pivot — is the EMT reference the company has held to since the 927 and 930 studio decks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEffective mass is 10.3 grams. Effective length is 246.75 mm. Offset 22.25 degrees, overhang 16.75 mm, null points 120.9 and 66.04 mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree mount options are offered. Standard accepts the EMT Tondose directly — the fastest path for a listener building an all-EMT front end. INT accepts an Ortofon A-compatible cartridge. X accepts an SME-compatible headshell. 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In a phono stage where the mechanical isolation of the analog front end is already the customer's job, the tube's own resilience becomes an audible advantage. Input and output transformers are integrated into the same milled-aluminum housing that carries the tubes, keeping the signal transitions inside a single mechanically-controlled envelope from cartridge to line output.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe input is a moving-coil RCA at 1 mV nominal sensitivity. The output is line level at 1.55 V on XLR. Overall gain is 64 dB nominal, 70 dB maximum. Signal-to-noise is better than 70 dB. Total harmonic distortion and noise is below –40 dB at 1 kHz at nominal level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMode is switchable between stereo and mono — a live setting for a listener who runs both stereo and true-mono cartridges. The equalisation curve is switchable between RIAA and DIN 78, which brings the phono stage into the room for the shellac and pre-1954 record collector as fluently as for the modern LP listener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHousing is milled aluminum, 480 × 315 × 60 mm. Weight is 12 kg. 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The 1:10 ratio provides 20 dB of voltage gain and is the answer for a lower-output cartridge or a customer running a longer phono cable into the following stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe internal windings are pure 4N silver. The magnetic core is an extremely low-loss material chosen for high resolution and minimal noise contribution — the transformer, in a properly executed passive design, adds nothing that was not in the groove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGround configuration is a three-position choice: input cold, floating, or centre tap. Load is switchable between EMT and open. Together the two switch banks let the transformer be optimised in the room, cartridge-by-cartridge, without opening the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHousing is 200 × 160 × 80 mm. The 5\/10 is the mechanically silent front end that sits between a Tondose or JSD cartridge and any phono stage — including the EMT 128 — that is expecting a somewhat hotter input than the raw cartridge provides.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EMT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48938910220507,"sku":null,"price":10995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1363\/6553\/files\/emt-stx-5-10-1_2.jpg?v=1783137541"},{"product_id":"emt-jsd-novel-gold-cartridge","title":"EMT JSD Novel Gold Cartridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe JSD Novel Gold is the current top of the EMT hi-fi cartridge program — the reference expression of EMT's multi-layer transducer technology in a body engineered around a pure-gold generator coil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe transducer is EMT's multi-layer core design, introduced in 2021 and built around a cantilever assembly of sapphire and titanium — sapphire for its stiffness-to-mass ratio, titanium for its ability to carry structural load without ringing. The stylus is an MR HP diamond: a multi-radius profile, high-polish grade, chosen to keep the contact patch minimal and the retrieved information maximal at any groove diameter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat separates the Novel Gold from every other cartridge EMT builds is the coil. Windings are pure 4N gold — a choice made not for spectacle but for tonal effect. Gold's electrical resistance and mechanical damping properties produce a sound EMT describes as rich and colourful; in the room, that reads as body without heaviness, warmth without a loss of speed. The magnet is AlNiCo, gold-plated. The body is high-density material, also gold-plated, tuned to sit acoustically inert against the tonearm headshell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOutput is 1 mV at 5 cm\/s. Coil impedance is 2 × 20 Ω per channel. Recommended load is 100 to 200 ohms. Tracking force is 2.1 grams, compliance 12 µm\/mN, weight 18 grams — a heavier cartridge, and one that asks for a tonearm equal to it. 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The stylus is an MR HP diamond, high-polish multi-radius profile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe coil is pure 4N silver — the traditional metal of the reference moving-coil cartridge, chosen for a fast, open, resolving voice. The magnet is AlNiCo, gold-plated. The body is titanium with a DLC (diamond-like carbon) coating, a combination the cartridge designer reaches for when energy dissipation through the body itself is a primary target. In practice, the Titan reads quieter around the note — the recovery back to silence between notes is faster, and the space between instruments opens accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOutput is 1 mV at 5 cm\/s. Coil impedance is 2 × 16 Ω per channel. Recommended load is 100 to 200 ohms. Tracking force is 2.1 grams, weight 13 grams — considerably lighter than the Novel Gold, and easier to partner with a wider range of tonearms. 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