Hana Umami Blue Moving Coil Cartridge

Description

The Hana Umami Blue hand-built moving coil cartridge embodies ‘umami’ – that very pleasing or delicious flavour on the palette, a synergistic effect resulting in higher taste intensity.

Features

• Low output moving coil with 0.4 mV output
• Boron cantilever
• Nude microline stylus
• Cryo-treated generator
• Auricle™ body machined from Duralumin

Hana’s Master cartridge designer Maseo Okada-san applies this ‘taste intensity’ concept as he combines brilliant materials and processes with classic Japanese techniques and modern audio engineering, to create his Hana Umami Blue low output moving coil cartridge, with ‘trickle down’ design features as offered in the higher specification (and outstanding) Umami Red cartridge.

The cryogenically treated MC generator features an Alnico magnet material with hand wound high purity copper wire on a cross armature, for an internal impedance of 8Ω and 0.4 mV output. A pure iron pole piece and nude microline stylus bonded to a solid boron cantilever are used for tracing the most delicate musical nuances from the LP.

The total design approach creates the classic sonic qualities and great value that Hana cartridges are now so well known for and positions the Umami Blue between the Hana ML and Umami Red cartridge price points.

The Hana Umami Blue uses the exclusive Auricle™ body shape (with tapped mounting holes) that mimics the form of the human outer ear, to rigidly support and help protect the “Open Air” Moving Coil generator. It is machined from a hard but light Duralumin with a special multi-layer melamine (MTP) brilliant glossy blue finish. An easy to fit stylus guard protects your investment.

All the major parts of the Hana Umami Blue 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 MC design experience to the Umami Blue, applying the Umami concept of synergy and intensity, to offer sound excellence.