Hana Umami Red MC Cartridge
Hi-Fi+ Magazine Cartridge of the Year
The Hana Umami Red MC cartridge is a sonic masterpiece that embodies the Japanese concept of "Umami," delivering a rich, complex, and deeply satisfying listening experience.
This hand-built cartridge features a meticulous combination of premium materials, including a samarium/cobalt magnet, pure-iron square plate armature, and a Microline stylus, all meticulously assembled by skilled craftsmen. The result is a cartridge that captures the most subtle nuances of your vinyl records with exceptional clarity, detail, and musicality.
Housed in a stunning Auricle-shaped body with an Urushi lacquer finish, the Umami Red is as much a visual delight as it is an auditory one.
Category Cartridges
Country Japan
Manufacturer Hana
Hi-Fi+ Magazine Cartridge of the Year
The Hana Umami Red MC cartridge is a sonic masterpiece that embodies the Japanese concept of "Umami," delivering a rich, complex, and deeply satisfying listening experience.
This hand-built cartridge features a meticulous combination of premium materials, including a samarium/cobalt magnet, pure-iron square plate armature, and a Microline stylus, all meticulously assembled by skilled craftsmen. The result is a cartridge that captures the most subtle nuances of your vinyl records with exceptional clarity, detail, and musicality.
Housed in a stunning Auricle-shaped body with an Urushi lacquer finish, the Umami Red is as much a visual delight as it is an auditory one.
Category Cartridges
Country Japan
Manufacturer Hana
Hi-Fi+ Magazine Cartridge of the Year
The Hana Umami Red MC cartridge is a sonic masterpiece that embodies the Japanese concept of "Umami," delivering a rich, complex, and deeply satisfying listening experience.
This hand-built cartridge features a meticulous combination of premium materials, including a samarium/cobalt magnet, pure-iron square plate armature, and a Microline stylus, all meticulously assembled by skilled craftsmen. The result is a cartridge that captures the most subtle nuances of your vinyl records with exceptional clarity, detail, and musicality.
Housed in a stunning Auricle-shaped body with an Urushi lacquer finish, the Umami Red is as much a visual delight as it is an auditory one.
Category Cartridges
Country Japan
Manufacturer Hana
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Stylus:
Microline
Cantilever:
Boron
Magnetic Circuitry:
Pure Iron/Cryo Treatment
Coil Wire:
High Purity Copper
Output Level:
0.4 mv
Output Balance:
<0.5/1kHzTrackability70 µm/2g
Channel Separation:
30dB/1kHz
Frequency Response:
10-50,000Hz
Coil Impedance:6Ω/1kHz
Suggested Load Impedance
> 60Ω
Magnet:
Samarium Cobalt
Vertical Tracking Force:
2g
Cartridge Weight:
10.5g
Body Material:
Duralumin (A7075), Ebony Wood
Body Finish:
Gloss Urushi Lacquer/ Red
Warranty:
2 years -
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Hana Umami Red MC Cartridge
The HANA-Umami Red hand-built MC cartridge embodies ‘Umami’ – officially coined in 1908 by Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda-san as 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.
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 for an internal impedance of 6Ω and 0.4mV output.
A Nude Microline stylus is bonded to a solid Boron cantilever for tracing the most delicate musical nuances from the LP.
The HANA-Umami Red exclusive Auricle™ body design (with tapped mounting holes) mimics the shape of the human outer ear to rigidly support the cryogenically treated “Open Air” Moving Coil generator. It is machined from a hard Duralumin with a multi-layered Urushi lacquer finish originating from the Japanese Makie-artistic tradition and incorporates an Ebony Wood inlay resonance damper. An easy to fit stylus guard protects your investment.
All the major parts of the HANA-Umami Red are manufactured in house by Excel Sound with its highly trained craftsmen skilfully hand assembling each cartridge. Master designer Okada-san brings over 50 years of experience to this design, applying the Umami concept of synergy with the HANA-Umami Red.
The Umami Red offers 0.4mv/1KHz output.
2 year guarantee and a ‘new for old or damaged’ replacement service.
