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The Umami Red is one smooth customer.
This cartridge connects you emotionally to the music. It can negotiate virtually anything you throw at it. Its balanced sound always seems to reveal a new interpretation of music that you are familiar with. You will find yourself just wanting to pull out albums and have a listen.
The HANA-Umami Red hand-built MC cartridge embodies Umami, officially coined in 1908 byJapanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda-san as a very pleasing or delicious flavor on the palette, asynergistic effect resulting in higher taste intensity.
Hana’s Master cartridge designer Masao Okada-san applies this concept as he combines brilliant materials and classic Japanese techniques with modern audio engineering in creating this MC cartridge.
Vinyl Nation digs into the crates of the record resurgence in search of truths set in deep wax: Has the return of vinyl made music fandom more inclusive or divided? What does vinyl say about our past here in the present? How has the second life of vinyl changed how we hear music and how we listen to each other?
An optical cartridge is a completely analog device. Like mm’s and mc’s, it reads the information stored in record grooves by means of the mechanical vibrations of a stylus. But where mm and mc cartridges transmit vibrations to a magnet or a coil, DS audio optical cartridges generate signals by capturing changes in brightness, using an internal LED as a light source, internal photo cells as receptors, and a very thin opaque plate mounted directly behind the stylus as the vibrating system.
"It works incredibly well and is the 'end all' for those looking to get rid of LP static charges. It does work continually and without issues. It looks really cool as well!" - Analog Corner comment submitted by Glotz