Hana Cartridges

HANA MEANS “BRILLIANT” IN JAPANESE

Hana cartridges are manufactured by Excel Sound Corporation, a Tokyo based company that has been producing both own-brand and OEM cartridges for over 50 years. Excel began by manufacturing low cost cartridges, such as the highly regarded Excel ES70, and by 1978 was producing MC cartridges, with particular expertise in high output MC cartridges. They are perhaps seen as a slightly underground company, not revealing which cartridge brands they have manufactured for over the years.

Excel established the Hana brand in 2015, and these low and high output moving coil cartridges, which use high rigidity aluminium cantilevers and cross-shaped armatures, quickly began winning from reviewers praise and awards.

Excel pride themselves on their manufacturing quality and quality controls at every stage, ensuring their handmade cartridges offer consistently perfect results. Their expertise in design and manufacturing has produced in the Hana range some of the finest sounding and value for money cartridges in their price bracket on the market today.

HANA UMAMI RANGE

The Hana Umami-Red takes the Hana brand into a new high-end cartridge bracket. This supremely musical and insightful low output (0.4mV) MC cartridge is the first in a series of Umami series cartridges, growing over the next few years.

The new Hana Umami Blue combines the essential ingredients of the Umami Red and Hana ML to establish a new standard for musical performance and value.

HANA ML, MH

The new top of line "ML" and "MH" range, with its nude natural diamond Micro-line stylus design, also has many further improvements to establish it as the highest musical performer in this group.

HANA SL & SH

The high performance Hana S range “SL” and “SH” cartridges use a nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus, capable of excellent high frequency response, giving super transparency and brilliant track-ability.

HANA EL & EH

The lower cost E range "EL" and "EH" cartridges come with a synthetic Elliptical diamond styli, offering a highly competitive quality sound, referenced against similar priced cartridges.