Nagaoka MP-300 (MP300) phono cartridge

NAGAOKA MP-300 MP 300 MP300 PHONO CARTRIDGE

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.

All this wonderful musical excellence is cocooned for years of listening pleasure.

Nagaoka MP-300 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: High-strength boron
- Stylus type: Superfine polished elliptical bonded diamond
- Weight: 8 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 3mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-25kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 25dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 7.2 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 20 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.3 - 1.8 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P300

Note: Nagaoka created the MP cartridges for use with their specified stylus. Thus using a MP200 stylus (JNP200) with a MP150 cartridge may upgrade its sound quality (SQ) BUT will not turn it into a MP200 cartridge. Same for the MP100 and MP110, MP300 and MP500.

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Footnote 1: Michael Fremer, "Nine Cartridges Reviewed, Compared and File Identities Revealed!", Analog Planet, August 22, 2013.