Hana Umami Black Low Output MC Phono Cartridge

If You Prioritize Analog Listening Above Most Pursuits, You Need to Experience the Hana Umami Black: Low-Output MC Phono Cartridge Includes World's First Integrated Pole Piece and Rear Yoke

What makes the Hana Umami Black low-output MC phono cartridge unique in a field abundant with reference high-end designs? Start with its newly developed high-efficiency “OKD” moving-coil generator with the world’s first integrated pole piece and rear yoke, as well as an inverted U-shaped front yoke, all devised and arranged to optimize energy transfer from this standout instrument’s diamond cantilever. Continue with the latter, the hardest-possible material that can transfer signals, and move into the high-power rare-earth neodymium-iron-boron magnet used for the aforementioned generator. 

Completed with an exquisite Urushi lacquer finish applied via a special thermosetting process that bonds it to the aluminum body by way of vapor deposition, the hand-made Umami Black goes further with a 2mm square hybrid carbon permalloy armature comprised of 78% carbon-infused nickel-iron. A mouthful, yes, but also know it is precision-wound with 30-micron 4N high-purity copper wire on proprietary machinery. Why do all of these technical details matter? Because the obsessiveness with which Hana takes the construction, alignment, and materials of Umami Black speaks to just how serious it takes breathtaking music reproduction.

Rated with an output of 0.3mV and an impedance of five ohms, Umami Black proves an virtuosic groove tracer that plays with degrees of transparency, speed, accuracy, and tonal balance that no wordsmith can completely convey without leaning on hyperbole. Able to effortlessly traverse the most challenging passages and render dynamics, soundstages, images, and micro-nuances with beguiling realism, it will immediately transform what you’ve heard on your favorite records and take you to a realm you won’t ever want to leave. Granted, the price of such excellence isn’t at all cheap, but listeners inclined to prioritize analog over most other pursuits owe it to themselves to experience it for themselves.