“Throw in a spirited mono cartridge, like Hana’s new SL Mono MK II, and you’ll be living like Frank Sinatra. Highly recommended.”
JULY 1, 2025
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.”
RECENT NEWS
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.
MARCH 12, 2025
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?
MARCH 12, 2025