"DS Audio’s made-in-Japan HS-001…machined from a solid billet of “ultra-duralumin”…features the sturdiest, most expensive-looking Litz wires I’ve ever seen...”
- Herb Reichert, Stereophile Magazine
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The Hana Umami Blue Moving Coil Phono Cartridge and DS Audio Grand Master Extreme Optical Phono Cartridge both win the 2023 Golden EAR Award from The Absolute Sound.
Hana Umami Blue
By: Andre Jennings - The Absolute Sound - 2023 Golden Ear Awards
Hana has set another benchmark of performance-for-cost…Excel Sound Corporation has created another superb-sounding cartridge with the HANA Umami Blue.”
DS Audio Grand Master Extreme
By: Jacob Heilbrunn - The Absolute Sound - 2023 Golden Ear Awards
“Listening to it will surely turn almost any analog lover into an adherent…the results are immediately audible…and you have one of the, if not the, best cartridges extant.”
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