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Nagaoka MP-500H Moving Magnet Cartridge in Headshell MM
Product no.: MP500H
£669.00
Price includes VAT, plus delivery
- MP-500 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
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
Replacement stylus JN-P500
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.
