The Hana EL delivers high-end musical performance of a low-output moving coil cartridge at an extremely attractive price.
Handmade in Japan! The Hana EL uses ALNICO magnets and offers the listener the texture, imaging, and musically engaging qualities that are characteristic of the best MC cartridges.
Long appreciated by audiophiles and music lovers, affordable low-output MC’s like the EL are a perfect match with the current generation of high-gain phono stages.
Introducing a new line from Japan, Hana (which means “brilliant and gorgeous” in the original Japanese). Hana Phono Cartridges use high rigidity aluminum cantilevers, and cross-shaped armatures, providing you with brilliant and gorgeous sound. Hana cartridges are produced by Excel Sound Corporation of Tokyo Japan, a long time OEM cartridge producer.
The Hana Series has been developed with significance placed on ease of use and set-up, as well as high performance reproduction. Hana Cartridges’ highly rigid aluminium cantilever are assembled with crossed armatures to reproduce dynamic sound!
- Hana EL Specifications:
Stylus Profile: Elliptical
Cantilever: Aluminum
Output Level @ 1kHz: 0.5mV
Output Balance @ 1kHz: Less Than 2dB
Vertical Tracking Force: 2 grams
Trackability: 70 um/2 grams
Separation @ 1kHz: 25 dB
Frequency Response: 15-25,000 Hz
Impedance @ 1 kHz: 30 Ohms
Suggested Load: 400 Omms
Cartridge Weight: 5 Grams
Body Color: Moss Green