PICKUPS FROM NAGAOKA
Brand Story Nagaoka began in the distant 1940, when the pre-war Japan, the company became one of the main manufacturers of bearings for clockworks. Further, having a great experience especially precision machining of hard materials such as diamond, ruby and ceramics, the company developed its production on ways to expand the range of products for various applications in the fields of industrial machinery, communications and electronics. In addition, the company is engaged in production of magnets for a variety of applications, including the most high-tech - based alloys, samarium-cobalt and neodymium.
It is only natural that having this experience, the company decided to start producing pickups and replacement needles for turntables.
Today Nagaoka - Japan#39;s largest manufacturer of pickup for turntables (including heads, mounted on holders - Shelley) and replaceable diamond stylus. As the company itself is engaged in manufacturing needles (and not only for themselves but also for other firms in the OEM-agreements), some replacement needles Nagaoka cost only about one-third of the cost of the head, which is much less than that of other manufacturers.
Pickup Nagaoka MP-150 has an excellent ability to track the smallest track modulation. To reduce the weight of the moving cantilever cartridge is made of aluminum alloy UT-58. Being the most durable of all aluminum alloys, UT-58 after the smelting process is subjected to a special roasting, doubling its rigidity.
Because of this manufacturer has achieved a rare combination of low self-weight and high hardness.
Diamond stylus tip has a diameter of 0.15 mm, which allows for uniform frequency response and incredible detail of the sound. Using miniature but powerful magnet of samarium-cobalt possible to reduce the size of the magnetic system without losing its effectiveness as a pole piece of a multilayered permalloy having a high permeability, provides a high impact with fewer turns of the coil.
Cartridge frame is made of a material PPS (Polyphenylene Sulfide), having the highest strength. Shielded enclosure is made of superpermalloya cartridge, which helps to raise the ratio of signal / noise player.
This head can be equipped with cartridge holder or the shell. Modification of the head with Shelley called Nagaoka MP-150H. Shell has been designed specifically for the MP-series to maximize reveal e ѐ opportunities. It is made of magnesium - a very lightweight material having the best ratio weight / strength of all commercial metals. The connecting wires shell - Stranded, from ultra-pure copper, which reduces the loss of signal transmission across the frequency range.
Contact shell - gold, corresponding to a precision technology at Nagaoka. The philosophy of the company `everything except the vibrating system must be rigid` true for shell.
In addition, the manufacturer has provided and the ability to separate the replacement stylus. Model replacement needles for this model is called JN-P 150.
