{"id":3441,"date":"2025-04-16T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2025-04-20T00:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T22:05:50","slug":"nagaoka-outclasses-its-mp-500-with-the-mp-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/nagaoka-outclasses-its-mp-500-with-the-mp-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaoka outclasses its MP-500 with the MP-700"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already a reference in the moving-magnet (MM) cell category, Nagaoka has set its sights even higher with the MP-700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Vum\u00e8tre, many of us own the MP-120 and the MP-150, the holy grail for any rock fan who likes to keep a taut sound in analog listening. And to test the MM part of the high-end preamplifiers, we also own an MP-500, set against all the cells in its range (at 999 \u20ac, so mostly MCs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the MP-700, Nagaoka goes even further than the MP-500 by increasing the use of permalloy circuits, a technology derived from Moving Magnet (MM), which here becomes Moving Permalloy (hence the term \u201cMP\u201d), with a moving part of this material attached directly to the cantilever. The cantilever itself has been redesigned for this new cell, in Boron and combined with a 0.12 x 0.3 mm MicroRidge diamond. A flexible shock absorber on which the cantilever rests enhances vibration control, combined with a suspension wire to maintain precision control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housed in a highly rigid Duralumin body with three layers of nickel plating, tin plating and insulating coating, the MP-700 is even less subject to heat variations and external interference than other models in the range. Obviously handcrafted in Japan, this top-of-the-range MM cell is launched this month in Europe at a price of 1 299 \u20ac, or directly mounted on a cell holder (MP-700H) at 1 399 \u20ac. We cannot wait to listen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MP-700H.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MP-700H.jpg 1070w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MP-700H-980x490.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MP-700H-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1070px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">04\/16\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already a reference in the moving-magnet (MM) cell category, Nagaoka has set its sights even higher with the MP-700. At Vum\u00e8tre, many of us own the MP-120 and the MP-150, the holy grail for any rock fan who likes to keep a taut sound in analog listening. And to test the MM part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}