HANA
Hana
Hana cartridges a long time OEM cartridge producer owned by Excel Sound Corporation of Tokyo Japan. 華.
Hana means “brilliant and gorgeous” in Japanese and use high rigidity aluminium cantilevers with cross-shaped armatures providing fantastic and musical sound.
Hana: Supremely musical range of low and high output MC Cartridges manufactured by Excel Corporation, Japan.
http://www.youtek.jp/hana.html
Hana have low and high output moving coil cartridge ranges with high praise and awards since their introduction to the UK in 2015 offering value for money in their respective price bands.
The E,S and M Hana MC Phono Cartridges use high rigidity aluminum cantilevers and cross-shaped armatures, providing a ‘brilliant and gorgeous’ sound at competitive price points for Moving Coil (MC) Cartridges offering these levels of sound quality. The Hana Umami Red cartridge offers the highest level of musicality, reaching new limits of excellence in the Hana range. Hidden Systems as a Hana dealer in Ascot Berkshire, UK are proud to promote as an alternative to partner with Linn Urika, Rega Aura, Linn Uphorik and Lejonklou phonostages.
The Hana E,S, and M cartridge ranges offer three different styli designs plus low and high outputs. The new top of line "ML" and "MH" range, with its nude natural diamond Micro-line stylus design, also has many further improvements to establish it as the highest musical performer in this group.
The high performance Hana S range “SH” and “SL” cartridges use a nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus, capable of excellent high frequency response, giving super transparency and brilliant trackability.There is also a MONO "S" version, the SLM, that offers the best sound quality when playing mono records.
The lower cost E range "EH" and "EL" cartridges (same two High and Low output options as the "S" range) come with a synthetic Elliptical diamond styli, but nonetheless offer a highly competitive quality sound, referenced against similar priced cartridges.
Suitable for Linn & Rega tonearms
Umami Red in headshell
Hana Umami Red