“Throw in a spirited mono cartridge, like Hana’s new SL Mono MK II, and you’ll be living like Frank Sinatra. Highly recommended.”

Garth Leerer, Ken Bowers, and Chris Thompson from Musical Surroundings will be at AXPONA this year, along with Robert Suchy and Stefan Kmuch from Clearaudio, Tetsuaki Aoyagi of DS Audio, and Hiroshi Ishihara from Hana. This year, we have new products from AFI, Clearaudio, DS Audio, and Hana. As always, it is an honor to present them with Quintessence Audio LTD, Chicago, Illinois.

Promising ‘a new era of analogue sound’, DS Audio launches its first all-tube energiser/equaliser to partner its growing range of optical pick-up cartridges. Has it succeeded?