As Nagaoka’s top-of-the-line cartridge, the MP-500 delivers unparalleled clarity and an immersive sound quality that makes you feel as though you are standing right on an orchestra's podium. Engineered to work best with superior Hi-Fi components, this cartridge features exclusive high-fidelity performance driven by a superfine polished line-contact diamond stylus tip and a low-mass, high-strength boron cantilever. Its premium construction is rounded out by a powerful samarium cobalt magnet, a carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic pole shoe, and an anti-ferro-magnetic permalloy shield casing, ensuring an elite, ultra-precise audio experience.
Technical Specifications
- Output voltage: 3 mV(5 cm/sec)
- Frequency response: 20-25,000 Hz
- Channel seperation: 27 dB(1 K Hz)
- Channel balance: 1.0 dB or less
- Load Impedance: 47 KΩ
- Load Capacitance: 100 pF
- Vertical Tracking Force: 1.3-1.8g
- Cantilever: Boron
- Stylus tip: line-contact naked diamond