Hana Umami Blue

Hana is helping to kick off the month of March in the exact right way by announcing their new Umami Blue cartridge, which follows in the fine moving-coil footsteps (so to speak) of their vaunted Umami cartridge series.

The Hana Umami Blue high-end moving-coil (MC) cartridge comes from Excel Sound’s master cartridge designer, Maseo Okada. According to Hana, the Umami Blue “combines the essential ingredients of the Hana Umami Red with the Alnico-based generator of the Hana ML.” The Umami Blue also incorporates the Auricle body design that’s exclusive to the Umami series.

Specifications

• Frequency response: 15 to 15,000Hz
• Output balance: 0.5dB/1kHz
• Channel separation: 30dB/1kHz
• Coil impedance: 8Ω with 0.4mV output
• Load impedance: >80 Ω
• Tracking force: 2g
• Trackability: 70μm/2g
• Dynamic compliance: 10 x 10 (–6) cm/dyne (100Hz); estimated at 17 x 10 (–6) cm/dyne at 10Hz
• Output pins: 24k gold-plated
• Weight: 10.8g