Experience the image solidity, detail resolution, and bass extension that made the Nagaoka MP-500 one of Stereophile's Editors' Top Picks Stereophile Recommended Component
The Nagaoka MP500 phono cartridge offers the highest musical and creative expression of the new MP series. It expertly extracts and reproduces with vivid, colorful and dimensional clarity what others miss. Meet our little friend - the Nagaoka MP500 phono cartridge - the master of the grooves. Sterenet Award Winner
The Nagaoka MP-500 phono cartridge offers the highest musical and creative expression of the new MP series. It expertly extracts and reproduces with vivid, colorful and dimensional clarity what others miss. Experience the image solidity, detail resolution, and bass extension that made the Nagaoka MP-500 one of Stereophile's Editors' Top Picks For The Industry's Best Products.
The Nagaoka MP500 phono cartridge offers the highest musical and creative expression of Nagaoka's MP series. It expertly extracts and reproduces with vivid, colourful and dimensional clarity what others miss
The Nagaoka MP-500 phonograph cartridge offers the highest musical and creative expression of the new MP series. Destined to become the benchmark by which most other MM cartridges are judged and already gaining something of a classic/cult status, the Nagaoka MP-500 even manages to challenge the supremacy of many high end MC cartridges at many times the price. Superbly musical, fatigue-free listening with refinement in spades thanks to an extended, well controlled and detailed HF response. It has superb authority too thanks to extended and detailed bass response. Redefining what’s possible with MM performance
Features:
- Exclusive superrigid body for ultra low resonance and superlative fidelity
- SuperFine polished line contact diamond stylus tip
- Powerful samarium cobalt magnet
- Low-mass, high strength boron cantilever
- Carbon Fibre reinforced plastic pole shoe
- Anti-ferro magnetic permalloy shield casing
Technical data:
- Principle: MM
- Cantilever: High-strength boron
- Frequency response: 20 - 25,000 Hz
- Channel balance: better than 1.0 dB
- Channel separation: better than 27 dB at 1kHz
- Output voltage: 3 mV (5 cm/sec)
- Tracking force: 1.3 - 1.8 g
- Impedance: 47 000 ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 8.5 x10-6/dyne
- Weight: 8.0 g
- Mounting: 1/2 inch
- Microsection: super-fine, line-contact diamond