Nagaoka MP-110

 

Can a cartridge slow down the music?

The record is still spinning at 33&1/3 rpm, right?

Yet somehow the music is less frantic, compared to an AT and a Shure cart. 

The timing, the tempo - it feels “right” with the Nagaoka MP-110.

I don’t know how it does it. Perhaps less of the upper mid emphasis of the AT, or the upper mid bass bump of the Shure. 

All I know is that I can relax to the music. If that’s what others call refinement then so be it. It just sounds smoother.

Maybe the music doesn’t slow down, my brain waves do.