Unveiled ahead of its official launch at High End Munich 2025, the new Nagaoka MP-700 is now the top-of-the-line model in the brand’s MP Series. A renowned audio equipment manufacturer from Japan, with 85 years of history, Nagakoa’s phonograph cartridges are used by many renowned companies as original installed equipment and under private label. The new MP-700 Moving Permalloy (MP) cartridge will be available in the standard MP-700 and a MP-700H premium version.
Compared to the conventional Moving Magnet (MM) type cartridges, the Moving Permalloy (MP) design features a lightweight permalloy piece attached to the cantilever. This design significantly reduces mass, allowing the stylus to move with greater freedom and precision. The result is a more refined and accurate sound reproduction.
The Nagaoka MP-700 boasts a boron cantilever paired with a new micro-ridge nude diamond stylus measuring 0.12 x 0.3 mil. This precise combination enhances sound accuracy, ensuring exceptional detail retrieval from vinyl grooves.
In the MP series, the MP-700 incorporates the softest damper, allowing the boron cantilever and micro-ridge stylus to perform at their best. The soft damper makes the cantilever movement lighter, improving responsiveness. While this can often lead to concerns about instability, the MP-700 addresses this with a newly integrated suspension wire in the pivot system as a countermeasure. This suspension wire effectively controls the movement of both the cantilever and stylus, providing stability while preserving enhanced clarity, particularly in the treble range. As a result, this feature improves separation, increases clarity across all frequencies, and ensures accurate representation of bass tones and timbre, delivering a more vivid and lifelike listening experience.
The MP-700 features a shielded case and cartridge frame crafted from ultra-duralumin, enhanced with a three-layer surface treatment: nickel plating, black tin plating, and an insulating coating. This treatment minimizes static interference, improves heat and wear resistance, and preserves the exterior’s longevity.
Nagaoka is a world leader in phono and audio products and accessories. Its phonograph cartridges are used by many renowned companies as original installed equipment and under private label. It is one of the last innovative manufacturers to offer a full line of phono cartridge products that meet the needs of many budget segments, turntable tonearm requirements, and performance levels. Each Nagaoka phono cartridge is manufactured in Japan with precision craftsmanship, stringent quality control in material selection and machining, bonding expertise, careful assembly and thorough inspection, perfected through Nagaoka’s long experience in stylus manufacturing technologies.
The MP-700 will be available worldwide starting May 13, 2025, commemorating Nagaoka’s 85 years anniversary. The new cartridge will be available in a standard version, the MP-700 ($1,399), and the premium MP-700H model ($1,499). A replacement stylus, JN-P700 is also available for $789.
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