Hana Umami Black

The HANA-Umami Black continues the brand’s legacy of “Brilliant and Gorgeous” sound.

Master cartridge designer Masao Okada-san of Excel Sound celebrates over 5 decades of innovation and excellence with his new masterpiece, featuring a diamond cantilever and new “OKD” High-Efficiency Moving Coil Generator. The Umami Black is much more than just an Umami Red with a diamond cantilever.

In a category first for HANA, the Umami Black incorporates a diamond cantilever, the hardest possible material, ideal for signal transfer.

Another category first, the Umami Black uses the newly developed “OKD” with the world’s first “Integrated Pole Piece and Rear Yoke” and Inverted U-shaped Front Yoke, optimizing energy transfer from the diamond cantilever.

The U-shaped (bifurcated) inverted front yoke is engineered for both mechanical resonance control and magnetic field alignment, while also providing precise support for the diamond cantilever.

Unique to the Umami Black, the rare-earth neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnet is used in the high-efficiency generator, delivering superior energy conversion.

A 2mm square hybrid Carbon permalloy armature, comprising 78% carbon-infused nickel-iron, is precisely hand-wound with 30-micron, 4N high-purity copper wire on Excel’s proprietary machinery. This ultra-light moving coil has an output of 0.3mV at 5 ohms.

The HANA-Umami Black features an exquisite Urushi lacquer finish, applied through a specialized thermosetting process that bonds to the aluminum body via vapor deposition.

* Cartridge Type: Moving Coil (MC)
* Cantilever: Diamond
* Stylus Type: Nude Microline
* Coil Impednce: 5 Ω
* Output: 0.3mV
* Load Impedance: ≥50 Ω
* Frequency Response: 15-50,000Hz
* Output Balance: 0.5dB/1KHz
* Channel Separation: 30dB/1KHz
* Tracking Weight: 2g
* Trackability: 70μm/2g
* Dynamic Compliance: 10 x 10(-6) cm/dyne (100Hz)
Estimated at 17 x 10(-6)cm/dyne at 10Hz
* Cartridge Weight: 11.3 grams
* Body Material: Duralumin with Urushi lacquer finish

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