Michael Trei of US hi-fi magazine Stereophile figures that over the past 50 years, he must have installed “well over 1,000 phono cartridges” so it’s safe to say he knows a good thing when he hears it – and he hears it in DS Audio’s DS-W3! Equally impressed by the ethos of the company as he is by the performance of its products, Trei opts to dig a little ‘behind the scenes’ to discover more about the genesis of DS Audio’s pioneering optical cartridge system and its vision for the future.

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“While we’ve grown used to a parade of game-changers in digital audio, analog is a different story,” writes Jonathan Valin in the April issue of US audio magazine The Absolute Sound. “There haven’t been many radical developments in the world of vinyl”… until, that is, DS Audio’s reinvention, and ongoing envelope-pushing, of the optical cartridge. The DS-W3 is the latest such example. Continue reading “A revelation”: The Absolute Sound reviews DS Audio’s DS-W3 optical phono cartridge →

“Name another recent technological advance that has changed the audio scene as much as DS Audio’s optical cartridges have. If you can’t, that’s because there is none,” says US hi-fi magazine The Absolute Sound. Moreover, the company just keeps on innovating, enhancing its offerings with technology trickled down from its top-of-range masterpieces.   Continue reading DS Audio’s innovative optical cartridges and accessories earn Five Editors’ Choice Awards 2024 from The Absolute Sound →

The message that optical phono cartridge technology can offer clear advantages over moving magnet and moving coil designs is finally ‘crossing the border’ from high-end hi-fi to more mainstream audio media, as What Hi-Fi discovers the superb performance of DS Audio’s DS-003.

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