ZEN cartridge ?


I have a "ZEN" (that''s the name in the front with gold letters) cartridge and can't find any information about it. In the back has a numbe rthat looks like is the serial: EQ41 or E041 in white letters that seems to be writen aat hand. Has black body, gold stylus cover and is gold and varnished wood top. Would like to find some info about it.... can you help me?
thanks in advance
jorsan

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Prof. Hiroaki Hibino, a long time user of Klipsch speakers,
was not satisfy with the dynamic performance of the regular
carts and designed his own. He demonstrated his cart to Paul
Klipsch who was so impressed that he ordered 4 (?)models
with different cantilevers to satisfy different subjective
preferences. Those are known(?) as 'Klipsch MCZ -' carts.
Later on Hibino produced 'the same' cart under his own brand
name 'Zenn MCZ'. If I remember well the cantilevers were:
aluminium, boron, sapphire and diamond. I own the Klipsch
MCZ-2 with aluminium cantilever.
According to the user manual provided by my MCZ-2
(aluminium cantilever) the specs are nearly identical.
The only difference is compliance depending from the
cantilever but not worth mentioning. The specs as
provided by comrade Mofimadness need some corrections:

Fr. range : 20Hz-45 KHz
Impedance : 2 Ohms
VTF : 1,8 +/- 0,3 g
Weight : 5,1 g