"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
OCTOBER 23, 2024
"You hear everything (or almost everything)—and you hear it against (and in part because of) an unequaled backdrop of silence—with a completeness that (on the best sources) turns the audible into the visible."
"...It’s as close as you’re going to come to a mastertape-like presentation for anything near its price." - Jon Valin, The Absolute Sound
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