Garth Leerer-san at Musical Surroundings / HANA USA distributor has forwarded us this another excellent review article on HANA-SL MONO MKII by Paul Seydor-san in “The Absolute Sound” magazine (May. Jun issue. 2025) in the US, for your further ongoing and powerful reference.

Following is it’s last phrase.

Do You Really Need a Mono Pickup?
Or is it that you merely want one? It’s a fair question. If you don’t have many mono recordings, I expect your stereo/mono switch, assuming you have one, is all you’d need to get pretty close to a mono pickup, and with many mono recordings the differences are negligible.
If you can’t quickly swap pickups either with a tonearm that has a detachable headshell or a second arm or turntable/arm setup that you can dedicate to mono, then owing to the inconvenience of switching from your stereo pickup, you’re liable to find yourself using the mono less than you thought you might. For myself, this review has been a learning experience.
While I don’t have that many mono recordings, those I do have I tend to listen to often, and most of them are musically magnificent and sonically very good or much better. And I routinely have at least two, frequently three record-playing setups at any given time, plus both arms on my Garrard 301 have universal headshells.
Which is to say that during the entire review period, I rarely listened to mono recordings except with the Hana. Add to the reasons already noted the particular tonal character of the Hana, which I happen to like a lot and which suits most of my favorite mono LPs, mostly vocal, traditional jazz, and some classical; its excellence in other areas; and the fact that it is so very attractively priced yet high performing—and you have as enthusiastic a recommendation as I can give, without the slightest second thought.