Hana Umami Red

the Umami Red is a half-covered cartridge; a sort of Lyra with a loose fit coat on. The generator is under a 'shroud' but open to the outside air rather than contained within a body

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It is designed to avoid picking up dirt without transferring airborne resonance to the generator itself. It's made of duralumin and ebony wood with a multi-layered urushi lacquer finish, and looks very attractive.

The generator sports a samarium/ cobalt magnet with a square plate permalloy armature, hand-wound with 30-micron copper wire. It sports a boron cantilever, with a nude microline Namiki diamond stylus on the end. The company quotes 0.4mv/1kHz for the output level, while its quoted compliance of 10x10(-6)cm/dyne (100Hz) is on the low side. The shroud is quite heavy, giving an overall weight of 10.5g.