“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
Threading the sonic needle nearly perfectly, the Umami Red is, as noted, exceptionally balanced, with upper-tier dynamics, instrumental separation, soundstaging, and realism. If this cartridge is set up properly in a capable system on a quality tonearm and phonostage, many listeners will surrender to its allure.
Read the entire review on The Absolute Sound website.
RECENT NEWS
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
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