HANA SH Shibata MC Cartridge 2mV output

HANA SH SHIBATA MC CARTRIDGE 2MV OUTPUT
- Critically-acclaimed high performance, high output Moving Coil cartridge with Shibata stylus

Manufactured by Excel Sound Corporation, a 50+ year-old company based in Tokyo, with roots in manufacturing low-cost, high-performance cartridges and styli, such as the highly regarded Excel ES70 and later on producing MC cartridges, with particular expertise in high output MC cartridges and specializing in OEM cartridge manufacture. They produce cartridges on an OEM basis for illustrious MC brands which by agreement they are unable to reveal. Launched in 2015, Hana is Excel's house-brand of MC cartridges. Hana means “brilliant and gorgeous” in Japanese.

Excel Sound Corporation prides itself with their manufacturing quality and quality controls at every stage, ensuring their handmade cartridges offer consistently perfect results. The highly acclaimed Hana SH cartridge has a Natural Diamond Shibata diamond stylus fitted to a high rigidity aluminum cantilever with cross-shaped armature, offering superb transparency and excellent track-ability. The body is manufactured from a composite low resonance plastic material in black.

This competitively priced high output moving coil cartridge offers great quality sound referenced against similar priced cartridges. The SH (Shibata high output) offers 2.0mv/1KHz output.

Hana EH Specifications:
- Tip Profile: Natural Diamond Shibata
- Cantilever: Aluminum
- Output Level @ 1kHz: 2.0mV Output Balance @ 1kHz: Less Than 1.5dB
-Vertical Tracking Force: 2 grams
- Trackability: 70 um/2 grams
- Separation @ 1kHz: 28 dB
- Frequency Response: 15-32,000 Hz
- Impedance @ 1 kHz: 130 Ohms
- Suggested Load: 47 K Ohms
- Cartridge Weight: 5 Grams
- Body Color: Black