Nagaoka MP-200 (MP 200 MP200) Phono Cartridge

NAGAOKA MP-300 MP 300 MP300 PHONO CARTRIDGE

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

NAGAOKA MP-500 MP 500 MP500 PHONO CARTRIDGE

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 VESSEL B3SS CARTRIDGE 
- So much more than just music.

Special High Grade Boron exceeding those used previously by other manufacturers offers superb sensitivity and prismatic tonal expressions. In combination with its Super Shibata diamond, the B3SS delivers rare experiences with your LPs — music rendered with grace, swiftness, liquidity and luminosity. It is breathtaking in its contradictions and counterpoints.

The Vessel B3SS Cartridge Specifications 
- Type: Moving Magnet 
- Frequency range: 20-30,000 Hz 
- Output voltage @ 1kHz: 2.5 mV 
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: <1.0dB 
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 23dB 
- Dynamic compliance (100Hz): 9 × 10^-6 cm/dyne 
- Tracking ability at 2.0g : >60 µm 
- Cantilever: Special High Grade Boron 
- Stylus type: Nude Super Shibata 
- Stylus tip radius: .00016 x .0028 inch 
- Tracking force: 2.0 g 
- Internal impedance @ 1kHz: 670 ohms 
- Internal inductance: 270 mH 
- Recommended load resistance: 47 kOhm 
- Cartridge color, body/stylus: Black/Gold/Green 
- Weight: 6.0 g 
- Mounting hardware included: 4 × Screws, 2 × Nuts 
- Stylus replacement: B3SS stylus

THE VESSEL RSM CARTRIDGE 
- So much more than just music.

With its hardness and soundspeed, Ruby has far higher sensitivity to stimuli from groove modulations. The refined cylindrical Ruby cantilever in the R3SM discovers and transmits more material from groove modulations, more energy sheltered within record grooves thus conveying more inspired sentience and realism. With its Microline diamond, it offers remarkable radiance and luminosity along with a fast, transparent and natural presentation that immerses you with your music.

The Vessel R3SM Cartridge Specifications 
- Type: Moving Magnet 
- Frequency range: 20-35,000 Hz 
- Output voltage @ 1kHz: 2.5 mV 
- Channel balance @ 1kHz: <1.0dB 
- Channel separation @ 1kHz: 24dB 
- Dynamic compliance (100Hz): 9 × 10^-6 cm/dyne 
- Tracking ability at 2.0g : >60 µm 
- Cantilever: Single crystal special cylindrical Ruby 
- Stylus type: Nude Super Micro Line 
- Stylus tip radius: .000079 x .0031 inch 
- Tracking force: 2.0 g 
- Internal impedance @ 1kHz: 670 ohms 
- Internal inductance: 270 mH 
- Recommended load resistance: 47 kOhm 
- Cartridge color, body/stylus: Black/Gold/Black 
- Weight: 6.0 g 
- Mounting hardware included: 4 × Screws, 2 × Nuts 
- Stylus replacement: R3SM stylus