Excel Sound Corporation Hana ML

The Hana ML moving coil (MC) cartridge is the cartridge bargain of the decade! 

High-end sound at a real world price. OK, its £995.00p price tag more than suggests its a cartridge for audiophiles with a good record deck and tone-arm, but if you have invested over £1,000 in your turntable/tonearm, then the Hana ML could take you into a vinyl music 'super league' (subject to tone-arm compatibility); and if you are thinking of spending up to £5,000 on a cartridge for a high end turntable/arm combination, think again, the Hana ML offers you most everything you get from the exotic cartridges available up to £5K, so save your money and buy records or upgrade your phono-amplifier (or both) instead!

Since its launch, the Hana ML has been making waves, exciting and amazing reviewers and customers alike, its been universally praised as the go-to cartridge at the price, and the likes of Alan Sircom, Editor of Hi-Fi+ magazine says 'As it stands, this is the best £3,000–£4,000 cartridge you can buy… for £995.' and we say, try finding a cartridge under £5,000 that really offers more balanced musical insight and pure all-round musicallity, we have not.  Other cartridges may offer something special in one department or other, the Hana ML offers it all. 

Noel Keywood, Editor of Hi-Fi World magazine said when reviewing the Hana ML 'Beyond wonderful .... I've never heard such a good sound as this before.... It gave more insight into Marianne Thorsen's violin ... than I have ever heard before .... it was the best I've heard from this 'difficult' LP .... The Hana ML was wonderfully insightful, had tonal poise and good firm bass ... placing it ahead of most else .... At the price, this is a great moving coil, well worth buying.'

The Hana ML Moving Coil cartridge has a nude natural diamond with Microline tip design, capable of excellent high frequency response without misstracking when through complex musical passages.  It uses high rigidity aluminum cantilevers with cross-shaped armatures, with all metal parts being cryogenically treated - offering transparency like few others, a wide and deep soundstage, superb trackability and spot on tonality. The body is manufactured from a composite low resonance plastic material (similar in density and resonance to vinyl used in records) in black.

The ML (Microline Low output) offers 0.4mv/1KHz output and will require a suitable phono-stage or step-up transformer.

There is a trade in service for replacing your worn out tip when it finally requires replacement.....or if the worst happens and you damage it.

We will fit this cartridge for you free of charge if you live within 15 miles of Henley on Thames, or bring your turntable to us for fitting.

If you are purchasing to fit yourself, we offer free carriage (UK and Ireland sales only), please contact for our best price.