Although the brand X-Quisite is new, the company is one of the oldest and most respected in the audio world. Based in Switzerland, X-Quisite is a high end division of EMT/Thales Audio. Brands that need no introduction, EMT is one of the founding fathers in the broadcasting industry and Thales Audio for its high precision tonearms. The X-Quisite phono cartridges are also quite unique: they use a a monobloc ceramic transducer that eliminate distortion from the tracking process and offers incredible naturalness and inner-detail to every record. Every cartridge features this monobloc design and is further tuned with specialized metals in the coil and body to give each model a specific personality. Nothing is quite like an X-Quisite phono cartridge and we are very happy to offer them to our discerning analog listeners.