Air Audio Distribution is introducing a new brand of moving coil cartridges to the UK market called Hana which means “brilliant and gorgeous” in Japanese. The Hana brand cartridges are hand made by the Excel Sound Corporation in Tokyo, Japan which has been making cartridges on an OEM basis for 50 years, specialising in MC types.
Hana is launching with four new MC cartridges, two with elliptical diamond styli and two with a nude natural diamond Shibata-stylus. All four have high rigidity aluminium cantilevers and cross-shaped armatures, providing a ‘brilliant and gorgeous’ sound, with excellent tracking, tonality and stereo presentation.
The line-up
Hana EL: Low output elliptical diamond styli, output at 0.5mv/1KHz £276.
Hana EH: High output elliptical diamond styli, output at 2.0mv/1KHz £276.
Hana SL: Low output Shibata diamond styli, output at 0.5mv/1KHz £447.
Hana SH: High output Shibata diamond styli, output at 2.0mv/1KHz £447.
The Hana cartridges are available through a growing number of selected UK Dealers, as shown on the Air Audio web site.