Hana Umami Blue Phono Cartridge

The Umami Blue is the entry point to Hana's flagship Auricle line, designed by Masao Okada to share engineering with the Umami Red while using the same generator found in the ML.

Its body is CNC-machined Duralumin, the Auricle body design exclusive to the Umami series, with a precision-cut diamond stylus on a boron cantilever and high-purity copper coil wire.

Full numeric specifications (output voltage, impedance, tracking force, compliance, weight) were not published by Hana's US distributor at the time of research; confirm these against the printed manual before finalizing detailed spec copy.

Moving coil design with no field-replaceable stylus; a worn cartridge is sent to a third-party retip service rather than swapped like a moving magnet stylus.

Specifications

• Stylus: diamond
• Cantilever: boron
• Coil: high-purity copper
• Magnet: Alnico-based generator
• Body: Duralumin