Warm sounding phono cartridge

I recommend a moving iron cartridge from SoundSmith

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'The Nagoaka MP500 is a moving permalloy cart with a nude fine line profile on a boron cantilever.  It's easy on the ears, but retains an inviting lively natural sounding detail with excellent dynamics.  

It sounds like a setup issue to me. Not to play down the OP's skills, knowledge, or experience, but I've tried setting up my Hana ML with a MoFi - Geodisc, and while I got it to sound decent, getting a professional setup guy to do the alignment brought the sound to a whole different level.

Cartridges at the level of the Umami Blue require careful setup and tuning with alignment tools like SMARTracktor or Feickert Alignment Protractor. 

+1 @chipcalzone  you beat me to it.

@rfauto I wouldn’t give up on the Hana just yet. At least not without narrowing down the reason why your albums sound “thin and noisy “.

What was your setup procedure for switching out to Hana Unami Blue? Cartridge alignment, tracking force, VTA? I’m guessing one cartridge is taller than the other. This could this be VTA related.

I believe the Hana output is 0.4mV, what is the Clearaudio cartridge output?

Good luck!

The "warmest" sounding cartridges that I have used have been Grados. The midrange presentation on a Grado is like syrup. I don't currently use a Grado because my speakers are a bit laid back and need cartridges with a bit more high end emphasis.