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.
Specifications:
| Type | Moving Magnet |
| Cantilever | High-strength boron |
| Stylus Type | Superfine polished elliptical bonded diamond |
| Weight | 8g |
| Output Voltage | 5mV @ 1kHz, 5cm/sec |
| Frequency Response | 20 Hz-25kHz |
| Channel Balance | >1dB @ 1kHz |
| Channel Separation | >25 dB @ 1kHz |
| Recommended Loading | 47k ohms |
| Dynamic Compliance | 7.2 x 10-6 cm/dyne |
| Static Compliance | 20 x 10-6 mc/dyne |
| Tracking force Range | 1.3-1.8 g |
| Break-in period | 30 hours |
| Stylus Replacement | Nagaoka JN-P300 |