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In Reply to: RE: Optimal Settings: Nagaoka MP-200 on a Technics GR series posted by flood2 on January 07, 2023 at 16:01:04
Thanks flood2 for the commentary. It makes sense, since your variance in tonearm height is from 1 to 3 that I found 2.5 sounded the best on my system (the most even in treble and bass).
I posted what I found here only to be a starting point to help others as they find their 'sweetspot' and your commentary will only add more clarity as they search for that setting.
Martin N.
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Flood2 is indeed one of the more knowledgeable and helpful individuals in this asylum, almost sane, so-to-speak :)
...I have a Nag MP-150. According to what I've been able to find out, it's a .3 x .7 elliptical, so maybe not the same tip dimensions as your MP-200 but...it's a great tip. High quality diamond that tracks damned near as well as Audio Technica's micro-line.
Mine's temporarily in reserve until I get another head shell for the AR XA.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
It is the same tip, Ghost, at least in profile. However, the MP-200 attaches the diamond to a boron cantilever. I am using one in a decades-old but fully original JVC direct drive with great results after experimenting with various AT, Shure, Ortofon MM's. None of them worked out as well. It almost sounds as good as my main rig...ulp!
...so OK, we won't talk about that.
Before AT though, I was a Shure die-hard. But replacement styli are hit and miss, mostly miss, the best of them are so expensive you could buy a new current production cart for the same money or less and it would still outperform the old Shure. Also, when Shure killed the V15 series and tried to fool us into believing the M97xe was just as good, well...that was just bullshit.
I never liked Ortofon's MM carts. Had a few, didn't use them for long.
Love the sound of Grado cartridges but never had one that tracked worth a damn.
Other than the AT 540ML, I like the Denon DL110 and the Nag. A high quality diamond will nearly always track well regardless of the shape. Denon uses good ones, so does Nagaoka.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
I'm an AT fanboy, too, as the main rig I mentioned incorporates an ART9XA in a Rega RP10 with an Audiomods Series 6 tonearm. I've also used an ART9, ART7, 33PTG, OC9III, 150ANV, and others including a few of the VM series. They're all wonderful cartridges, relative bargains in each price range. The VM740 I was using prior to the MP200 sounded a little less musical in the vintage JVC, to my ears, but that may have been due to other factors. It could have easily remained in place had I not been curious--and surprised & enchanted with--the Nagaoka.
Edits: 01/09/23
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