Hana EL

Hana EL Elliptical Stylus  The Hana EL provides high-end musical performance from a low-output moving coil cartridge at an extremely attractive price. Handmade in Japan, the EL uses ALNICO magnets and affords the listener the textural, imaging, and musically involving qualities associated with the best MC cartridges. Long prized by audiophiles and music lovers, affordable low output MCs such as the EL are a perfect match to today’s generation of high-gain phono stages.        REVIEW & AWARDS The Hana EL Moving Coil Cartridge: Exceptional Performance at an Agreeable Price Point - Read More "For someone like me who occupies the middle area of the audio spectrum, the magnificence of a great cartridge like the Hana EL simply has to be heard to fully comprehend just what I've been missing. But it would probably only be marginally made manifest if attached to a mediocre tonearm. And despite my single complaint about the arm supplied with The Classic (the armrest issue), it's more of an inconvenience and is not at all subtractive of the overall level of performance of the arm. The Hana EL is truly a remarkable cartridge, and in combination with The Classic, makes for a compelling and world-class analog playback system. And even though the price is probably double what I'm typically used to paying for the cartridge that's usually mounted in the arm of my table, the almost unbelievable increase in trackability, musicality, and overall performance makes it worth every penny. And I've totally changed my mind about the higher cost of the Hana SL; as remarkable as the EL has been in my system, the SL would probably have me reaching for a new set of superlatives. Very highly recommended!! " -  Tom Gibbs   HANA AND HER SISTERS: the EL and EH moving coil cartridges - Read More "There’s a sense of swings and roundabouts in terms of the EH and EL versions of the Hana cartridges. I felt that the EH provided a slightly more accurate and tonally a tad more exacting performance in how the detail was extracted from the master while the EL, utilising that slight measure of extra warmth, gave the music a slightly more forgiving nature. In effect, you could say that the EL looks at the bigger picture. The latter, rather than focusing upon specifics, provided a possibly more engaging and flowing performance. Both cartridges, however, performed well and both bring genuine advantages to any listening session while both offer terrific value for money. "     SPECIFICATIONS Stylus Synthetic Elliptical Cantilever Aluminum Output Level 0.5mv/1kHz Output Balance <2dB/1KHz Vertical Tracking Force 2g Trackability 70 µm/2g Channel Separation 25dB/1kHz Frequency Response 15-25,000Hz Impedance 30Ω/1kHz Suggested Load Impedance >400Ω Weight 5g Height 15mm Body Color Moss Green Warranty 2 years