I have several of the original CD-4 cartridges from the original era, Empire 4000 D/I, Empire 440D, Pickering XUV-4500Q, Pickering 780, Audio Technica AT-912Sa, Panasonic EPC-450C II, EPC 451C, etc. and they all work fine.
I also have an Audio Technica AT440MLa and it generally works well, too, although not quite up to the best engineered-for-CD-4 cartridges.