NEWS ARCHIVE
" – you have the ears and the gear, then you will find this as indispensable as a dust brush."
"...if you live for vinyl and want to extract the best of your LPs, you'd better start saving."
DS Audio Grand Master cartridge - "A Grand Masterpiece that well deserves TAS’ 2023 Cartridge of the Year Award.”
Hana Umami Blue cartridge - “With the Blue, Hana has set another baseline of performance-for-cost, even against competitors in the upper four-digit range.”
"The DS Audio ES-001 Eccentricity Detection Stabilizer IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING LP ACCESSORIES I’VE EVER RUN ACROSS! I would NEVER have believed how much impact it can have if I hadn’t heard it! Simply a superb accessory, bordering on a necessory, especially if you have an exceptional analog front end… WOW!"
"...Hana Umami Red is a brilliant, shimmering star in today's moving coil cartridge universe. Most enthusiastically recommended."
“…solid “A” rating. The Ovation simply blew the tonearm off a Technics SL-1200G, when the direct drive table sounded significantly inferior.” - Jerry Seigel, 10audio.com