The ‘948’ cost around DM 12000 and was therefore still too expensive for many professional users. (For many customers in faraway countries, it was also too complicated, so EMT continued the production of the ‘930’ until 1982.) An even smaller and cheaper unit was designed and introduced in March, 1982: the ‘938’ ‘Broadcast Disk Reproducer’ ("Rundfunk-Plattenspieler") featured a simplified direct-drive and electronics, it was slimmer and cheaper than its two brothers and some of its parts, like the plinth and lid, were taken from commercial ‘hi-fi’ products. The 938 had been designed in co-operation with Thorens, and a modified version of the 938 was marketed by this firm as the ‘TD 524’, a discothèque-oriented deck that could be equipped with a Thorens ‘TP 16L’ or even the EMT ‘929’ tonearm. The '938' cost around DM 6.000 without the upgradeable, pluggable moving coil cartridge preamplifier circuit board.