The Nagaoka MP-300 is an advanced technology cartridge that offers detail resolution, finer images on a wider, deeper, better-defined soundstage, and an overall balance that is among the most pleasing regardless of price. It offers sophistication, refinement and high-definition at all audible frequencies thus making it one of our favorite phono cartridges. It's nimble on the grooves, vivid, frames a wide, deep and defined soundstage and is easy on the ears so you keep on wanting to listen more.
Specifications:
Type | Moving Magnet |
Cantilever | High-strength boron |
Stylus Type | Superfine polished elliptical bonded diamond |
Weight | 8g |
Output Voltage | 3mV @ 1kHz, 5cm/sec |
Frequency Response | 20 Hz-25kHz |
Channel Balance | >1dB @ 1kHz |
Channel Separation | >25 dB @ 1kHz |
Recommended Loading | 47k ohms |
Dynamic Compliance | 7.2 x 10-6 cm/dyne |
Static Compliance | 20 x 10-6 mc/dyne |
Tracking force Range | 1.3-1.8 g |
Break-in period | 30 hours |
Stylus Replacement | Nagaoka JN-P300 |