"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
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"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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