Miyajima Laboratory
Zero Mono
Introduced 2012$2,375 MSRP
The Miyajima Zero is a dedicated moving-coil monaural cartridge built in Japan around an African blackwood body, designed specifically for playing true mono LPs rather than deriving mono from a stereo cartridge. It is offered in "A" and "B" stylus variants — a 1.0-mil conical stylus for pre-1967 mono pressings and a 0.7-mil conical stylus for most post-1967 mono records — and Stereophile's reviewer described it as revelatory for mono record playback.
MSRP
$2,375
Used market · Good
$1,100
-54% vs MSRP
as of Sep 1, 2026MSRP to used market
From $2,375 at launch to $1,100 today.
Specifications
- Price
- £1,750 (Time Step, UK); $2,375–$2,575 (Artisan Fidelity / True Audiophile, US)
- Weight
- 11.8 g
- Compliance
- 8×10⁻⁶ cm/dyne at 100 Hz
- Stylus type
- A version: 1.0 mil conical (pre-1967 mono); B version: 0.7 mil conical (post-1967 mono)
- Body material
- African blackwood
- Generator type
- Moving-coil
- Output voltage
- 0.4 mV
- Tracking force
- 2.0–4.5 g; 3.5 g recommended
- Published price
- 2375 USD
- Recommended load
- 100 Ω
- Frequency response
- 20 Hz–20 kHz
- Internal impedance
- 6 Ω
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