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Hana E series MC cartridges
The award-winning Hana E series Moving Coil cartridges have a synthetic Elliptical diamond stylus fitted to a high rigidity aluminium cantilever with cross-shaped armature, offering super transparency and excellent trackability. The body is manufactured from a composite low resonance plastic material in dark green.
These competitively priced moving coil cartridges offer great quality sound referenced against similar priced cartridges. The EL (Elliptical Low output) offers 0.5mv/1KHz output. The EH (Elliptical High output) offers 2.0mv/1KHz output.
Hana S Series MC cartridges
The Hana S series Moving Coil cartridges have a nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus capable of excellent high frequency response. A high rigidity aluminium cantilever with cross-shaped armature offers supreme transparency and superb trackability. The body is manufactured from a composite low resonance plastic material in black. The S series cartridges have won many awards globally.
Both the low and high output options offer the listener terrific musical insight and musicality referenced against similar priced cartridges, with low surface noise and all-round ability, the suit all musical genres. The SL (Shibata Low output) offers 0.5mv/1KHz output. The SH (Shibata High output) offers 2.0mv/1KHz output so is for use with a moving magnet phono stage, offering Moving Coil sound quality.
Hana S Series MONO cartridge
The Hana SLM (MONO) Moving Coil cartridge has the same nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus and mechanical design as the SL, except for specific design changes to make it capable of perfect mono reproduction.
The Hana SLM brings the listener terrific musical insight and musicality referenced against similar mono cartridges, with low surface noise and all-round ability, suits all musical genres and ages of mono vinyl pressings. The SLM (Shibata Low output Mono) offers 0.5mv/1KHz output.
Hana M Series MC cartridges
The Hana ML cartridge has several advanced product features that take the sound fidelity and musical enjoyment to new heights, offering a superb sound quality v. price at its higher price point. The M series offer exceptional value for money, reviewers regularly compare them with cartridges costing up to 4 times the price.
The ‘Micro-Line’ stylus design (shaped like the cutting head when the metal master LP is being produced), fits precisely into the vinyl groove to capture the very smallest details, offering better frequency reproduction and less distortion. The Hana M Series cartridge bodies are made from POM, a hard and extremely rigid, low resonance thermoplastic. There is a gold-plated copper resonance plate integral with the cartridge body that further reduces distortion from vibrations.
The ML (Micro-Line Low output) offers 0.4mv/1KHz output. The MH (Micro-Line High output) offers 2.0mv/1KHz output.
Umami Red MC Cartridge
Umami Sound means Wonderful Taste in Music The HANA-Umami Red hand-built MC cartridge embodies ‘Umami’- a very pleasing or delicious flavour on the palette, a synergistic effect resulting in higher taste intensity. Hana’s Master cartridge designer Maseo Okada-san applies this concept as he combines brilliant materials and classic Japanese techniques with modern audio engineering to create his Hana Umami Red low output MC cartridge.
Launched late 2020, the Umami red has already won many accolades, like Hi-Fi+ magazine ‘cartridge of the Year 2020’ and Hi-Fi News ‘Highly Commended’ status, in the UK press.
A Nude Microline stylus is bonded to a solid Boron cantilever for tracing the most delicate musical nuances from the LP. The cryogenically treated MC generator features a samarium/cobalt magnet with a pure-iron square plate armature, hand-wound with high purity 30-micron copper wire offering a 0.4mV output.
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