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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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dman777
188 posts
 

Sorry, I meant or the songbird 

 

lewm
14,650 posts
 

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.

dman777
188 posts
 

Ok... Good point. I'm going to start a new thread

peter_s
1,439 posts
 

@lewm how do you ensure that the top of the head shell is parallel to the LP surface? Do you put a bubble level on the head shell? Does the extra mass from a bubble level affect the VTA? I have always tried to get the tone arm itself, parallel to the LP, visually… But I’m interested in how you do this with the head shell. 

lewm
14,650 posts
 

I do it by eye at first then tweak VTA once thereafter if SQ seems off (but certainly not for each LP).

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