Nagaoka MP-150H Moving Magnet Cartridge in Headshell MM

Product no.: MP150H

Nagaoka MP-150H Moving Magnet Cartridge in Headshell MM
£309.00
Price includes VAT, plus delivery
Available delivery methods: UK Tracked with Signature, Airmail Standard, UK Express, Airmail Tracked with Signature, UK Standard, Airmail Small
  • MP-200 Pre-mounted in an SME type headshell

Nagaokas were always better than ‘merely competent’, and this latest model throws the hat into the current analogue-revival ring with panache.  It also bears a sane price tag. - HIFI News

 

The Nagaoka MP-150 phono cartridge offers fine solid bass, superb fluidity across the frequency spectrum, and sweet highs. To an artful listener who aspires for warm and accurate eloquence over bravado the Nagaoka MP-15O will be an endearing and lasting treasure.

 

The Nagaoka MP-150 phono cartridge offers superior clarity, detail and dynamic contrast.
 
Features:
Super Fine polished special elliptical stylus tip
Powerful samarium cobalt magnet
Light weight hardening taper alluminum alloy cantiver
Carbon Fibre reinforced plastic pole shoe
Anti-ferro magnetic permalloy shield casing
 
Technical data:
Principle: MM
Microsection: Super-fine, elliptical diamond
Cantilever: Hardened, low-mass tapered
Weight: 6,5 g
Tracking force range: 1,5 - 2,0 g
Output voltage: 4,5 mV
Frequency characteristics: 20 - 20,000 Hz
Channel balance: better than 1.5 dB
Channel separation: better than 24 dB at 1 kHz
Recommended loading: 47,000 ohms
Dynamic compliance: 6.0 x 10-6/dyne
Static compliance: 18 x 10-6/dyne
Mounting: half inch
 
Replacement stylus JN-P150
 

 

 

Nagaoka MP-series cartridges and Nagaoka audio accessories with the authentic vinyl sound 
 
With Nagaoka cartridges you can experience the concert hall in the comfort of your home. 
 
 
Nagaoka is unique in the cartridge business having produced styli, cartridges and accessories for records since 1940 thus more than 70 years!  Moreover all the very high precision parts used in manufacturing the cartridges and styli are made in Nagaoka’s  own factories, from the diamond tips, the cantilevers, the samarium cobalt magnets, even the coils.
 
The phonograph stylus is the most important link in your vinyl sound system to capture the information stored in the grooves of the vinyl record and translate this information into an electrical current. The quality and shape of the stylus and the tolerances in the manufacturing process are of the utmost importance to ensure that the translation of the information in the grooves is perfect and no information is lost or added in the process. Nagaoka is the world’s only cartridge producer
Making all the required parts in house and having 100% control over the quality of each individual part.
 
Each of the above models offer the highest possible music reproduction in their class.
 
The new high performance Nagaoka MP-series cartridges incorporate the most up-to-date materials including the ultra-light weight Permalloy oscillator at the rear end of the cantilever and the very strong samarium cobalt permanent magnet mounted in the cartridge body. The cartridges of Nagaoka’s MP-line produce an equal sound reproduction in all frequency ranges from the super deep low tones to the crystal clear high notes, clearly accentuating and separating every detail, however small, of the musical instruments and voices of the artists.
 
The accuracy of the MP stylus keeps all the details of the music separate so each detail can be heard clearly. of Nagaoka's continuous pursuit of perfect sound reproduction  will not fail to provide you with the utmost musical satisfaction.
 

 

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