Asking for members blessings on Nagaoka MP 300 purchase


I’m a tube guy and always have been. But I have assembled a Naim XS and Harbeth C7 system with a Luxman PD 151. My work schedule gets in the way of my listening, so I use this system more than my tube/horn setup. The cartridge purchase is the final step, and this system is complete. Give me the Jack Nicholson TRUTH ( I can handle it) on your Nagaoka opinions. Lets try and keep the thread to this subject only.

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I carry the lowly but amazing MP-110 in my mobile setup kit as a just in case cartridge….it probably has 100 k air miles on it w various loaner duty to fellow audiophiles…. Fantastic line of cartridges…. superb value. I’ve had friends switch away from 300/500 into Hana…but probably more for system synergy…

I agree w Lew on getting new 500….

Dman, this thread was about Nagaoka cartridges, so your question comes out of left field, so to say. My guess would be that Hana are very popular right now in internet conversations. Nothing more than that except maybe Songbird doesn’t sing for its owners. I am not a Sumiko cartridge fan myself.