Garth Leerer -san at Musical Surroundings / HANA USA distributor has just forwarded us this astounding information that HANA-UMAMI Black has got Masterful review by Michael Fremer-san in TRACKING ANGLE magazine in USA, for your further ongoing powerful reference.

→https://trackingangle.com/equipment/hana-umami-black-moving-coil-cartridge-seamless-elegance
Following is its closing note.

Conclusive Conclusion
Simply put, the Excel Sound team has delivered a masterpiece. Listening to the Umami Black many weeks after it was installed is as exciting and mesmerizing as it was on day one. Whatever the break-in was I can't recall the usual "aha! Now it's broken in". It sounds as fast and clean, yet full bodied and timbally linear as it did on day one. The Umami Black proved to be an ideal fit for every kind of music I threw at it. Jazz, Rock, Folk, orchestral, chamber music, big band, electronic, whatever! It has no shortcomings, unless you crave cozy warmth, which it will not deliver. It won't sound cold either. Its micro and macro dynamic authority will not disappoint.

I keep returning to the Pentangle album. I've always admired the recording quality and the playing but it always (and this goes back to 1968) left me kind of bored. I rarely played both records through. I've played it through more than a few times over the past few weeks, taken by every aspect of the presentation: effortless vocal clarity, sibilant perfection, and transient accuracy. Terry Cox's shimmering glockenspiel floated almost daring me to reach out and touch it; the attack immediacy, sustain delicacy and decay generosity convincing in ways I hate to flog a dead horse but no digits do this! And if a cartridge can better what the Umami Black did with this recording, I'd like to hear it! More are on the way, so maybe I will. If you can afford this luxury, I'm pretty sure you'll not regret the purchase.