Half-Inch Mount Cartridges

LP Tunes CARBON FIDELITY CF95SE CARTRIDGE 
- Music that makes you want to listen.™

Listen to the new voice of music. Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Co-developed and designed with LP Tunes by Audio-Technica's best engineers, the new Carbon Fidelity 95 Spectra Elliptical (CF95SE) cartridge benefits from the latest quality parts and materials technology featuring a super carbon fiber cantilever that respond to the most complex high amplitude attacks and transients as well as the most heavily recorded passages. The updated design, tight specifications, Twin-Flux™ magnets, high-quality moving system fulcrum and radial damping ring allied with a Spectra elliptical diamond tip produce music that makes you want to listen.

Mastered to illuminate in comparison to lofty cartridges beyond the economics of most listeners, the CF95SE touches and endears the more you listen. You won't want to go back to your underperforming or pricey cartridge. You'll hear, feel and sense the music exquisitely rendered — harmonically full-bodied, refractive and refreshingly crystal clean with luminous detail spatially radiating with realness. You'll experience remarkable note clarity, projection and nuanced tonal complexity previously unheard and unappreciated.¹

CF95SE Phono Cartridge Details 
- Type: Moving Magnet VM Dual Magnet Stereo
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec.: 2.5 mV
- Channel balance at 1kHz: 2.0 dB or less
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 20 dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Dynamic compliance (x10-6 cm/dyne): 6.5
- Load resistance: 47k ohms
- Load capacitance: 100 - 200 pF
- Stylus type: 0.3 × 0.7 mil Spectra Elliptical diamond
- Cantilever: Super Fidelity Carbon Fiber²
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.5 g
- Tracking force recommended: 1.8 g (18 mN)
- Coil impedance at 1kHz: 2.8k ohms
- Phase polarity: In-phase, positive polarity 
- Recommended load resistance: 47k ohms
- Recommended break-in duration: 30 hours
- Color: Black, Silver, Indigo, white LP Tunes
- Weight: 5.7g ± 0.5g
- Dimensions (mm): 28.1L × 12.7W × 17.2H
- Accessories included: Brass screws × 2, and nuts × 2
- Stylus replacement: LP Tunes CFN95SE stylus

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Footnote 1: A high resolution system allows full experience of the nuanced tonal complexity offered by the Carbon Fidelity CF95SE. 
Footnote 2: Carbon fiber composites offer 10 times the strength of steel at half the weight. Each producer's carbon fiber differs from those of its competitors, and the processing details are considered to be intellectual property. The special carbon fiber used in the Carbon Fidelity cartridges and styli is patiently and expertly considered for its signature characteristics to bring out the subtleties and finesse of music extracted from the grooves of records and LPs. For carbon fiber info see: "The making of carbon fiber".

"The Deft 2 is wonderful. I still love the sound of it and have it mounted in my one and only head shell." - Jim Fosgate

LP Tunes introduces the Harmonic Opulence DEFT 2 phono cartridge, a performer of remarkable simplicity and genius. The nomenclature says it all. In harmony with music, it sounds organic and real as music played in real time and space.

The LP Tunes Harmonic Opulence (HO) series of cartridges offer extraordinary performance, exemplary value, natural tone and musicality in a simple package.They are fitted for half-inch tonearms. Each is meticulously crafted. Stringent quality control assures that tolerances and performance criteria are maintained for each product. As in other series within the LP Tunes magnetic phono cartridge range, your investment in an entry level cartridge does not become obsolete. When your appreciation of music and critical listening develop and your demands for sophisticated electronics grow, you can easily and sensibly upgrade performance by installing a better stylus within the series.

The LP Tunes HO Deft 2 cartridge with its advanced hyperelliptical stylus offers excellent extractive performance and musical wealth.

LP Tunes Deft2 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Frequency response: 15Hz-29kHz
- Output voltage @ 1kHz, 5 cm/sec: 4mV
- Channel separation: > 28dB @ 1kHz
- Channel balance: 1.5dB
- Vertical tracking force: 1.25 - 2.0 g
- Stylus shape: Hyperelliptical
- Cantilever: Thin-wall tube
- Recommended load impedance: 47k ohms
- Weight: 5 g
- Dimensions (mm): 30l x 18w x 17h
- Stylus replacement: LP Tunes ND2

LP Tunes introduces the Harmonic Opulence DEFT phono cartridge, a performer of remarkable performance. The nomenclature says it all. In harmony with music, it sounds organic and real as music played in real time and space.

The LP Tunes Harmonic Opulence (HO) series of cartridges offer extraordinary performance, exemplary value, natural tone and musicality in a simple package.They are fitted for half-inch tonearms. Each is meticulously crafted. Stringent quality control assures that tolerances and performance criteria are maintained for each product. As in other series within the LP Tunes magnetic phono cartridge range, your investment in an entry level cartridge does not become obsolete. When your appreciation of music and critical listening develop and your demands for sophisticated electronics grow, you can easily and sensibly upgrade performance by installing a better stylus within the series.

LP Tunes DEFT Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Frequency response: 15Hz-25kHz
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec.: 4mV
- Channel balance: 1.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 28dB
- Vertical tracking force: 1.25 - 2.0 g
- Stylus shape: Special elliptical 0.3 x 0.7 mil
- Cantilever: Thin-wall tube
- Recommended load impedance: 47k ohms
- Weight: 5 g
- Dimensions (mm): 30l x 18w x 17h
- Stylus replacement: LP Tunes ND

LP Tunes iMAGE PHONO CARTRIDGE

The LP Tunes iMAGE phono cartridge offers higher fidelity sound quality for popular USB turntables such as ion and Numark. We've improved its performance by using a special conical diamond stylus bonded to a thin wall Zualum cantilever that traces a precise image of the grooves thus resulting in better sound quality with more atmosphere and clarity. This is in fact the signature and theme of the iMAGE series. It's a fine sound that elevates and soothes.

As in other series within the LP Tunes magnetic phono cartridge range, your investment in an entry level cartridge does not become obsolete. When your appreciation of music and critical listening develop and your demands for sophisticated electronics grow, you can easily and sensibly upgrade performance by simply installing a better stylus within the series.

For those seeking better sound quality and musical redemption from their USB turntable for recording and listening, the LP Tunes iMAGE phono cartridge offers upliftment.

The cartridge comes complete with a LP Tunes iSMG9 stylus, installation instructions, screws and nuts.

LP Tunes iMAGE Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5 cm/sec: 2.4mV
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: < 2.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 16dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Stylus type: Bonded special conical diamond
- Stylus tip radius: 0.5 x 0.6 mil
- Tracking force range: 2.5 - 3.5 g
- Tracking force recommended: 3 g
- Tracking ability @ 315Hz @ recommended tracking force: 70µm
- Internal impedance: 1.2k ohms
- Recommended load resistance: 47k ohms
- Color: Black/Red
- Weight: 4.3 g
- Stylus replacement: LP Tunes iSMG9

The LP Tunes iMAGE SE phono cartridge offers higher fidelity sound quality for popular USB turntables such as ion and Numark. We upgraded its performance by using a highly polished Special Elliptical diamond stylus bonded to a thin wall Zualum cantilever that traces a more precise image of the grooves thus resulting in higher accuracy and fidelity with more detail and harmonic richness - more goodness to listen and record. It's a fine sound that enriches with goodness.

For those seeking to extract the best sound from their USB turntable for recording and listening, the LP Tunes iMAGE SE phono cartridge offers this special product of excellence.

The cartridge comes complete with a LP Tunes iSMG9SE stylus, installation instructions, screws and nuts. Made in Japan.

LP Tunes iMAGE SE Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Output voltage @ 1kHz, 5 cm/sec: 2.4mV
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: <2.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 16dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz- 25kHz
- Stylus type: Bonded special elliptical diamond
- Stylus tip radius: 0.3 x 0.7 mil
- Tracking force range: 2.5 - 3.5 g
- Tracking force recommended: 3 g
- Tracking ability @ 315Hz @ recommended tracking force: 70µm
- Internal impedance: 1.2k ohms
- Recommended load resistance: 47k ohms
- Color: Black/Red
- Weight: 4.3 g
- Stylus replacement: LP Tunes iSMG9SE

NAGAOKA JT-555 JT 555 JT555 PHONO CARTRIDGE
- latest stock is Tonar 555 same JT-555 made by Nagaoka for Tonar

A leading edge, top performance cartridge for stereo and discrete four-channel reproduction, the Nagaoka JT-555 offers long playing life and majestic tonal quality. The solid-black carbon cantilever with its very high rigidity and very low effective mass, faithfully transmits the most delicate movements of the stylus tip to the magnet. By combining the solid-black carbon cantilever with the superb Ultra-Ex stylus tip, the frequency response range has been widened to cover everything from the subsonic to the supersonic. Enjoy listening to your records again.

Nagaoka JT-555 Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Stereo moving magnet
- Material: Super permalloy shield, injection mold frame
- Frequency response: 10Hz-28kHz
- Effective mass: 0.6 mg
- Channel balance: 1dB @ 1kHz
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 20dB
- Output voltage @ 1kHz: 3.3mV
- Recommended load: 50k ohm
- Stylus: Ultra-Ex
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-555 expert super
- Cantilever: Solid carbon-black
- Dynamic compliance: 10 x 10 - 6 cm/dyne @ 100 Hz
- Static compliance: 20 x 10 - 6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force: 1.1 - 1.5 g (Optimum 1.3 g)
- Weight: 5.2 g - Size: 15.5 x 27 x 22 mm
- Mounting: JIS EIA (12.7 mm), 1/2 inc mount
- Accessories included: screwdriver, 2 screws and nuts

The Nagaoka MP-10 phono cartridge offers Nagaoka quality, high track ability, and musical competence at an attractive price. This is a cartridge that will soothe your ears and your wallet.

- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: Aluminum alloy
- Stylus type: Conical diamond with .0006 inch radius
- Weight: 6.8 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 5mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 2dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 22dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 5.5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 18 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.5 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours

The Nagaoka MP-100 phono cartridge offers musical clarity and expression beyond its price and competitors - a splendid upward start toward long term musical enjoyment.

- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: Lightweight aluminum alloy
- Stylus type: Conical diamond with .0006 inch radius
- Weight: 6.5 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 5mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 2dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 22dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 5.5 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 18 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.3 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P100

The Nagaoka MP-11 phono cartridge is one of the most highly rated inexpensive cartridges in the world. The Nagaoka MP-11 is particularly beloved by many for its refined and gracious presentation of the musical event with a level of detail extracted from the grooves that is better than its competition. It offers amazing tracking ability. It tracks with ease even those that few can manage with confidence and undistorted performance. The Nagaoka MP-11 eschews in-your-face detail which seems to be the flavor of the day. Instead, it offers music to be savored and enjoyed as a cohesive whole. It is a proven and classic cartridge worthy of high recommendation to friends who want to again listen to their LPs. The Nagaoka MP-11 phono cartridge is sure to please the palate of discerning music listeners.

Nagaoka MP-11 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: Aluminum alloy
- Stylus type: Polished elliptical bonded diamond with 0.3 x 0.7 mil radii
- Weight: 6.8 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 5mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 23dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 6.0 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 18 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.8 - 2.3 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours

What makes the Nagaoka MP-110 stand out is the way it provides a musical performance that is completely satisfying and fulfilling, while still having the ability to create those "oh, wow" moments because the music just sounds so good. Tracking and bass impact are exceptional and the music has an effortless ebb and flow no matter if you are listening to classic rock or pure classical, with everything in-between.¹

The above excerpt from a recent review demonstrates the eloquence and artistry of this humbly-priced and affordable cartridge. The successor to the acclaimed and classic Nagaoka MP-11 phono cartridge, the Nagaoka MP-110 phono cartridge extends and strengthens its predecessor's talents to a new level of radiance. You'll hear more music, more detailed refinement to enjoy and savor. The Nagaoka MP-110 is the cartridge to start with and to keep for a long time.

Nagaoka MP-110 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: Aluminum alloy
- Stylus type: Superfine polished elliptical bonded diamond with 0.4 x 0.7 mil radii
- Weight: 6.5 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 5mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 23dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 6.0 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 18 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.0 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P110

¹ Don Lindich's Sound Advice Blog, Nagaoka MP-110 Cartridge, http://www.soundadviceblog.com/vinyl-records/nagaoka-mp-110-phono-cartridge/

The Nagaoka MP-150 phono cartridge offers superior clarity, detail and dynamic contrast.

Nagaoka MP-150 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: Hardened, low-mass tapered
- Stylus type: Superfine elliptical diamond
- Weight: 6.5 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 4.5mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-20kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1.5dB
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: > 24dB
- Recommended loading: 47k ohms
- Dynamic compliance: 6.0 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Static compliance: 18 x 10-6 cm/dyne
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.0 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P150

The Nagaoka MP-200 is a cartridge of musical nuances. On one hand, it is a very refined cartridge that offers an organic and fluid presentation with an engaging midrange reproduction of vocals and instruments, and superbly smooth highs. On the other hand, it expresses the fine detail, luster, dynamics and presence of music that are so often veiled and obscured by smooth sounding cartridges. It is this ability to engage music with its contrasts that makes the MP-200 so endearing, involving and extraordinary when compared to its price peers and beyond.

For many, this is the final cartridge to own given its affordability and return on musical enjoyment. For the few who seek beyond, the Nagaoka the MP-300 and MP-500 offer suitable alternatives for solace.

Nagaoka MP-200 Phono Cartridge Specifications
- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: High-strength Boron
- Stylus type: Superfine elliptical diamond
- Weight: 6.5 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 4mV
- Frequency response: 20Hz-23kHz
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: > 1.5dB
- 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: 1.5 - 2.0 g
- Break-in period: 30 hours
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P200

The Nagaoka MP-300 phono cartridge offers sophistication, refinement and high-definition at all audible frequencies thus making it one of our favorite phono cartridges. It is nimble on the grooves and easy on the ears so you keep on wanting to listen more. The Nagaoka MP-300 is an advanced technology cartridge that is destined to become a classic out of the box.

- Type: Moving magnet
- Cantilever: High-strength boron
- Stylus type: Superfine polished elliptical bonded diamond
- Weight: 8 g
- Output voltage @ 1kHz,5cm/sec: 5mV
- 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

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.

- 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
- Stylus replacement: Nagaoka JN-P500

¹ Michael Fremer et al, "Recommended Components: Editors' Top Picks For The Industry's Best Products," Stereophile, Vol.34 No.4 (April 2011): 66.

"The Ortofon OM3E outperforms the Ortofon 2M Red by a wide margin on my system to which I owe you very many thanks. In addition, the token of quality inspection as per shipping document makes me feeling good."
- TO, customer from Japan

The Ortofon OM3E OM 3E phono cartridge is the least expensive cartridge that Ortofon offers. It uses the same high performance cartridge body as its sibling up the line and it comes with a special elliptical diamond stylus. As in other Ortofon OM series cartridges, it portrays music naturally across the frequency spectrum.

And when its time for you to seek more discernment, you can easily upgrade to a higher level of performance by simply replacing the stylus to a Stylus 5E, 10, 20, 30 and 40. You can enjoy music now and even further later on when you choose to.

Ortofon OM3E Specifications
- Frequency range: 20 - 22,000 Hz
- Output voltage at 1 kHz, 5cm/sec.: 4.0 mV
- Channel balance at 1 kHz: 2.0 dB
- Channel separation at 1 kHz / 15 kHz: 22 / 15 dB
- Tracking ability: 60 m
- Dynamic compliance: 20 m/mN
- Stylus: .0003 x .0007 inch special elliptical diamond
- Equivalent stylus tip mass: 0.5 mg
- Tracking force range: 1.5 - 2.0 g
- Tracking force, recommended: 1.75 g
- Tracking angle: 20
- Internal impedance, DC resistance: 750 Ohm
- Internal inductance: 450 mH
- Recommended load resistance: 47 K
- Recommended load capacitance: 200-600 pF
- Color: Black
- Weight: 5 g
- Stylus replacement: Ortofon Stylus 3E