Nagaoka MP-500

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.1

The Nagaoka MP-500 features an exclusive super-rigid body for ultra low resonance and superlative fidelity with a superfine polished line contact diamond stylus. Its characteristics include a powerful samarium cobalt magnet, low-mass high-strength boron cantilever, carbon fiber reinforced plastic shoe and anti-ferro magnetic perm alloy shield casing.

Specificatons:
Type: Moving magnet
Cantilever: High-strength boron
Stylus type: Superfine line contact diamond
Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 3mV
Frequency response: 20Hz-25kHz
Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1dB
Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 27dB
Recommended loading: 47k ohms
Dynamic compliance: 8.5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
Tracking force range: 1.3 - 1.8 g
Weight: 8 g
Break-in period: 30 hours