Description
What Hi-Fi? Awards 2025 winner. Nagaoka’s well-proven design produces a class-leading performance.
With a super fine polished elliptical diamond stylus tip, the MP200 offers fine detail and clarity, presenting crisp highs and impressive low frequencies with ease, making your music sound the way it was intended to be heard. The powerful samarium cobalt magnet ensures the music flows smoothly, maximising your listening enjoyment.
The Nagaoka MP200 has been carefully engineered with all in-house components, putting accurate sound reproduction at the top of the list. The cartridge has a low mass boron cantilever and anti-ferro magnetic permalloy shield casing, meaning the MP200 is constructed with high quality parts, it retains all the dynamics and details of the original music, that can often be overlooked on similar, smooth sounding cartridges.
The MP200 cartridge remains surprisingly affordable, in spite of its high quality construction, and compares well against competitors in the same price bracket. The MP200 is an ideal cartridge for audiophiles, as well as anyone looking for a change of moving magnet cartridge for their turntable. The Nagaoka MP200 can offer a different dynamic to your music, elevating it to a new level, providing new enjoyment to your favourite music.
- Super fine polished elliptical diamond stylus tip
- Anti-ferro magnetic permalloy shield casing
- Low mass, high strength boron cantilever
- Nagaoka JN-P200 stylus replacement
- Carbon fibre reinforced plastic shoe
- Powerful samarium cobalt magnet
What Hi-Fi? Verdict – 5 Stars – Awards 2025 winner
The Nagaoka MP-200 is a terrific all-rounder and is easily one of the best performers in its class
The MP-200 is a clear, controlled and entertaining performer. Its talents start with balanced tonality and continue with expressive dynamics and plenty of punch. As we work our way through our record collection it is hard not to be impressed by its composure when playing difficult and dense recordings like Orff’s Carmina Burana and its ability to resolve large amounts of information.
- Balanced, detailed and precise sound
- Strong dynamics and pleasing punch
- Blocky shape makes it easy to set up
