Product Description
“Hana” means brilliant and gorgeous. Designed and built in Tokyo by the veteran cartridge manufacturer Excel Sound Corporation, the Hana SL Moving Coil cartridge has a nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus, capable of excellent high frequency response, and use high rigidity aluminum cantilevers with cross-shaped armatures offering supreme transparency and excellent trackability. The body is manufactured from a composite low resonance plastic material in black.
The SL (Shibata Low output) offers 0.5mv output
The SH (Shibata High output) offers 2.0mv output
The Hana Series has been developed with significance placed on easy use and set-up, as well as high performance reproduction. Hana's high output versions, EH and SH, supply 2mV output, so that they can be directly connected to MM phono input for vinyl reproduction.
Compliance: 10 x 10(-6) cm/dyne (100Hz) Estimated: 16 x 10(-6) cm/dyne (10Hz)
| Stylus | Nude Diamond Shibata |
| Cantilever | Aluminum |
| Output Level | SL = 0.5mV/1kHz, SH = 2mV |
| Output Balance | <1.5dB/1kHz |
| Vertical Tracking Force | 2 gr. |
| Trackability | 70μm/2gr. |
| Channel Separation | 28dB/1kHz |
| Frequency Response | 15~32,000Hz |
| Impedance | SL = 30Ω/1kHz, SH = 130Ω |
| Suggested Load Impedance | SL = >400Ω, SH = 47kΩ |
| Cartridge Weight | 5 gr. |
