The sound of My Sonic Lab cartridges are the result of master cartridge designer Yoshio Matsudaira seeking natural reproduction by minimizing signal loss, internal distortion, and phase distortion. All My Sonic cartridges utilize Matsudaira-san’s unique SH-μX magnetic core. This special core material has higher permeability and flux density than the typical iron core material used in MC cartridges. It allows My Sonic Lab to use fewer coil windings than other moving coil cartridges, minimizing music robbing distortions and maximizing signal output. This high efficiency approach equals wide dynamic range, fast transient response, low distortion and high signal-to-noise ratio. In other words, expect tremendous natural detail and clarity and to hear new layers of information in your favorite records.

The Signature Gold was released for My Sonic Lab’s 10th anniversary. Matsudaira-san evaluated every aspect of his previous Eminent designs for areas to be improved. A stronger two-component chassis, higher grade internal wiring and improvements in the suspension led to a more refined sound. However, it is the 10% larger SH-μX core that makes the Signature Gold excel at energetic expression and power. Compared to the Eminent designs, Signature Gold has more extension, slam, power, and dynamic range.

Winner of the prestigious Stereo Sound Magazine 2012 Grand Prix Award.

The body is made with hand-selected tone wood maple, a wood used specifically for violins

Analogrelax insists on using only all natural wood for the bodies of our cartridges. Why?

Making cartridge bodies with resin or metal produces much greater yield, and is more efficient at manufacture.

Why would we go out of our way to use wood?

It is because we believe that cartridges are instruments to play records in their own right.

What are most famous musical instruments made with? Yes: they are made with wood.

And this is nearly inevitable.

A space cut out in the silence.

There, another reality transcending time itself is illuminated in outline.

You can feel the artist’s breath, the audience’s sigh, or the recording engineer’s soul.

The AP-01 is a musical experience so vivid and intense that you will be able to feel it.

The AP-01 is a model that was designed and manufactured based on physical requirements and simply considering from zero how a record player should be.

The AP-01 is designed to carefully convert the minute information carved in the grooves of a record onto the needle without missing a thing, and to carefully convert it into electric current.

When you encounter the AP-01, you will surely feel the urge to listen to all the records in your collection again.

GOLD AWARD FOR THE AP-01 AT ANALOG GRAND PRIX 2024

The sound of My Sonic Lab cartridges are the result of master cartridge designer Yoshio Matsudaira seeking natural reproduction by minimizing signal loss, internal distortion, and phase distortion. All My Sonic cartridges utilize Matsudaira-san’s unique SH-μX magnetic core. This special core material has higher permeability and flux density than the typical iron core material used in MC cartridges. It allows My Sonic Lab to use fewer coil windings than other moving coil cartridges, minimizing music robbing distortions and maximizing signal output. This high efficiency approach equals wide dynamic range, fast transient response, low distortion and high signal-to-noise ratio. In other words, expect tremendous natural detail and clarity and to hear new layers of information in your favorite records.

The Signature Platinum is the ultimate expression of designer Yoshio Matsudaira’s goals. Pure transparency without distortion or coloration. Building upon the design of Signature Gold, the Platinum eliminates the final percentages of cartridge coloration by utilizing a Black Ion Hardened Titanium body that is completely free of any audible resonance. The Signature Platinum is only the 2nd model in the My Sonic Lab line to use a Boron pipe, which is lighter, more rigid and faster than the aluminum cantilevers. The result is pure transparency. After you hear this model, you’ll realize every other cartridge you’ve ever heard adds something that isn’t supposed to be there. Signature Platinum is Matsudaira’s masterpiece.

“… nothing else in my experience has produced this level of realism with the grand piano.” -Richard Mak Read the review here

The Sensual Reverberations Created by 2,000 Years Old YAKUSUGI Cedar. Wood from YAKUSUGI cedar has highly dense wood grains due to life in harsh weather conditions, which allows it to create an organic sound.

The EX2000 uses the finest ‘spruce’ from the South Tyrol region of Northern Italy, where the material for the ‘Stradivarius’ is said to have been harvested. Its surface is coated with an ultra-fine powder allowing it to reproduce the natural sound.

The finest spruce harvested from the same forest as “Stradivarius”

We use the finest “spruce” for the body shell that is harvested in the northern Italian South Tyrol region and used as the top wood for violins.

The northern Italian South Tyrol region is said to be the forest area where materials for the renowned “Stradivarius” were harvested. We carefully select and cultivate the highest quality spruce from this area, and it undergoes rigorous management during the drying process.