Today I’ll take you on a guided tour of DS Audio Grand Master Optical Phono Cartridge system. That’s right. I said optical phono cartridge.
AUGUST 14, 2024
"Its silky elegance and perfect naturalness are particularly impressive. The outright sparkling fireworks that Sol Gabetta ignites with her "Cappella" at Vivaldi concerts thus became a tingling pleasure. The pieces, captured in the natural ambience of the Salle de musique in La Chaux-de-Fonds, France, tickled our eardrums with a flood of details. The Umami Red played unbridled and yet extremely disciplined, giving free rein to fortissimo attacks but not forgetting the all-important echo of the room, which enveloped the whole performance."
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