Acoustic Sounds
By: Tracking Angle

March 1st, 2023

Category:

Industry News

Hana Introduces the new Umami Blue Moving Coil Cartridge

from Excel Sound's master cartridge designer Mateo Okada-san

Musical Surroundings today announced the new $2500 Hana-Umami Blue cartridge. From the press release: "The new cartridge follows in the Hana “Brilliant and Gorgeous” tradition of providing the listener with sublime enjoyment. Embodying the true sense of synergy, the HANA-Umami Blue combines the essential ingredients of the HANA-Umami Red with the ALNICO based generator of the HANA ML."

The new cartridge incorporates the Auricle™ body design, unique and exclusive to the Umami series and is CNC machined from Duraluminum, and utilizes a special Melamine Thermosetting Process (MTP), enameling, giving the body a brilliant blue glossy finish. It shares other key Umami Red components including a precision-cut Microline diamond stylus, Boron cantilever, and high-purity copper wire wound on a cross-coil core.

The Umami Blue combines those parts with the ALNICO magnet-based generator used in the Hana ML. Coil impedance is 8 ohms, output is .4mV.

Umami Blue cartridge debut

>> Read the review of the Hana Umami Blue

Comments

  • 2023-03-02 03:08:03 PM

    Jeff 'Glotz' Glotzer wrote:

    Monstrously cool and important to the industry... Saving up for this jewel! Also looking forward to the review here.

  • 2023-03-02 07:16:52 PM

    Nigel Tufnel wrote:

    Hana goes to 11 in my books!

    • 2023-03-02 07:34:57 PM

      Jeff 'Glotz' Glotzer wrote:

      It can be 'none more black'.