“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 Umami Blue is the least expensive cartridge I’ve heard that does most of the things that the big high-end cartridges do… And that is about the highest praise that I can give a cartridge...I mean, if you’re paying attention, you know that you can spend $8000 or $9000 on a moving coil cartridge and even more on phono preamps. So, from that perspective, the Umami Blue offers great value."
— Tom Martin, The Absolute Sound
Read the full review at The Absolute Sound
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?
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