Excel Sound Corporation Hana SL
Hana in Japanese means .... brilliant and gorgeous.
Price: £629.00
The Hana SL moving coil (MC) cartridge offers more than a taste of high-end sound at a sensible price. We love this beauty, its design features and construction offers a low output MC device with precise tracking, very low surface noise and terrific all round performance that is hard to beat by any of the competition under £1,000.00p.
The Hana SL Moving Coil cartridge has a nude natural diamond with Shibata tip design, capable of excellent high frequency response and uses 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/1KHz output.
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.
This cartridge has been lauded by Hi-Fi reviewers (winning group tests, 5 star awards and Editors Choice awards in the UK; and lot of equally good awards world wide), and excellent feedback from Customers as well.....
Review conclusion: "I could live with the Hana... If tomorrow all the other cartridges I had disappeared I would be quite happy to continue listening. I wouldn't feel short-changed, and though I might miss certain things they wouldn't 'bother' me so much. No other cartridge under 1500 Euro has passed this test. That the Hana is well below this [price] limit is quite an achievement."
Discs that were previously difficult on the ear such as piano and violin sonatas are a joy to hear. Vocals become real words, female sibilance is absent and the sound-stage is as wide as my smile." B.P. A happy customer. Full detail on file.
