Founded by Eji Kanda, who passed away in 2020, Mutech is now run by Akiko Ishiyama and continues to develop top-quality moving-coil phono cartridges.
In May at Munich, the Japanese brand presented a new MC cell, the RM-HAYATE, designed around a novel circuit that involves driving the coil in a magnetic field, created in a ring made of a proprietary “SS-M” material on which neodymium magnets are placed. A gold plating reinforces the structure of the magnetic circuit, enabling very high efficiency at very low impedance.
In a highly rigid chassis, the OFC copper coil picks up the signal from a stylus with a half-line contact pin, taking it to output pins also made of OFC copper, gold-plated using Hyakusiki’s specific technology. The frequency range covered is announced as 10 Hz to 45 kHz, for a cell weighing just 7.5 g, expected to sell in France for 4 900 €.
09/06/2025