![]() Seamlessly switching between the Hana and Koetsu: DSA Phono II.Īfter letting the Hana burn-in for a few weeks, my initial A/B listening impressions only improved. YMMV, as this is obviously, system, and ear dependent. Suggested loading for the SL is greater than 400 Ohms, but after a few days of playing with everything from 100 to 1,000 Ohms, I settled on 175 Ohms, and 60 dB of gain, with a tracking force of 1.95 grams. Thus, four cartridges were born last year: The EH, an elliptical stylus equipped high-output (2 mV) moving coil design, the EL which is identical to the EH except it is a low-output model (0.5 mV), the Shibata-tipped SH (2 mV), and finally the subject of this review, the SL (0.5 mV), a nude, natural diamond Shibata-profile stylus LOMC. ![]() The story goes that senior company management wanted to stop having their expertise hidden behind the curtains, and go for the spotlight. Info is a little thin on the ground, but from what I gathered the Hana is built in Tokyo, Japan by the Excel Sound Corporation, a manufacturer which has been around for some 50-odd years producing OEM cartridges for a number of other companies. I’m sure you’re curious (as I was), as to where this cartridge comes from. ![]() Bare-ass naked.īut let’s back this up a bit. Because it can handle three turntables or tonearms at a time on-the-fly, the Phono II seemed like the perfect way to see how the fudai Hana got along with the likes of a shinpan Koetsu ($11,000 USD). The phono stage at the time of this review was the incredibly versatile, and transparent Dynamic Sounds Associates (DSA) Phono II ($10,500 USD, review coming soon). When the Hana SL was dropped off, I also had the acutely musical Avid Acutus SP turntable with an AMG Lorenzi tonearm, and Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum LOMC cartridge (review of this combo coming soon) in the mix courtesy of Mobile Fidelity. This was a bit trickier than usual because of the Hana’s light weight, but Ku persevered, and after some initial consternation, and a final azimuth tweak, it was good to go. The $750 USD Hana SL cartridge is relatively new to North American shores, and Edward Ku at Element Acoustics had some on hand, and asked would I be interested? I said “Yes!” He popped by soon after to mount the five-gram, black, plastic-bodied SL to my Linn Sondek. Hana SL features a nude, natural diamond Shibata-profile stylus for only $750 USD. The Hana SL had a similar effect on me while I had it in my system: I had no idea anything out of the ordinary would occur at the start of the review, but by the end I was a bit breathless. The film is driven by the strength of convictions in each character, with suspense, and a healthy dose of fear created as events inexorably draw the viewer to a heart-pounding finish. It details how a series of events lead to a climactic conclusion at a nuclear power plant in the United States. 1979 was a glorious year for hair.įor those of you out there on the Internet reading this who grew up in the ’70s, you might remember a suspense thriller called The China Syndrome. Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda star in The China Syndrome. Graig Neville and Jameson Mourafetis visit EMBER Audio + Design | HUBCON 2022ĭave School and The Scully Record Lathe | HUBCON 2022 Vinyl Night at Wise Man Brewing | HUBCON 2022 The Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3 Special Sauce | HUBCON 2022 Vulcanized from Arbenz, Vistel & Moutin | The Vinyl Anachronistģ00B Tube – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know | The Occasional Podcast SPL Performer s1200 Power Amplifier | REVIEW Nancy & Lee from LITA | The Vinyl AnachronistĬredo EV Reference One Loudspeakers | REVIEW Technics Premium Class C600 System | REVIEW Jan Gunnar Hoff, Home | The Vinyl AnachronistĪcoustic Sounds Behind The Scenes | Documentary Pacific Audio Fest 2022 Preview | PAF 2022Ī New Audio Show Emerges | Audio Advice Live 2022 Qobuz to Sponsor Two New Audio Shows: Pacific Audio Fest, Audio Advice Live Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Mastering Process | NEWS JMF Audio Enters US Market with New Amplifiers | NEWSīackert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3 Preamplifier | REVIEW Fink Team Kim and the Matterhorn Audio Group | PAF 2022
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