“Name another recent technological advance that has changed the audio scene as much as DS Audio’s optical cartridges have,” write the US audio magazine’s reviewers. “If you can’t, that’s because there is none,” they add, as they give Awards to four of the company’s cartridges, and two Awards to designer Tetsuaki Aoyagi’s innovative accessories.
Continue reading DS Audio wins six Editors Choice Awards 2026 from The Absolute Sound
“The Project V1 Series represents the pinnacle of Furutech’s engineering efforts in high-end audio cabling and power cords,” writes Neil Gader in US audio magazine The Absolute Sound. It’s a bold claim, but one he backs with detailed listening impressions across genres. Spoiler alert: this “might be the last stop on your cable and power cord journey”!
The annual Yearbook from Hi-Fi Choice is a compendium of the best audio components to pass through the magazine’s pages in the preceding 12 months. Among them is Furutech’s GT2 NCF USB-B cable, carefully crafted to enhance the sound quality of any digital audio system. Continue reading Furutech GT2 NCF USB-B cable earns five-star recommendation in Hi-Fi Choice Yearbook
DS Audio’s DS-003 optical phono cartridge, which sits just above entry level in the Japanese company’s range, offers an impressive complement of technology borrowed from the range-topping Grand Master model – but at a fraction of the price. That alone is worth an award! Continue reading DS Audio’s DS-003 optical cartridge wins another Editors’ Choice Award from The Absolute Sound
Japanese hi-fi cable and accessories experts Furutech remain as determined as ever to develop and deploy a wealth of proprietary ‘pure transmission’ technologies that allow a delicate musical signal to remain as unimpeded as possible as it journeys through your hi-fi system. US audio magazine The Absolute Sound’s Editors’ Choice Awards pick three of their winners. Continue reading Furutech wins three Editors’ Choice Awards 2026 from The Absolute Sound for its noise reduction innovations
Furutech’s top-of-range ‘Project V1’ series of cables is painstakingly designed to deliver pure, uncoloured power to any high-performance audio and AV system. First in the series was the V1 mains cable, which is now a worthy winner of a Hi-Fi Plus Award 2026.
The Absolute Sound’s Technology & Innovation Awards 2025 feature in a special Fall issue of the US magazine, celebrating “the greatest technologies and innovators in high-end audio”. Prominent among them is Tetsuaki Ayoagi, founder and chief designer of DS Audio and pioneer of the modern optical phono cartridge. Continue reading “A revolution that deserves celebration”: DS Audio wins ‘Technology of the Year’ & ‘Innovator of the Year’ in The Absolute Sound’s Technology & Innovation Awards 2025
PRESS RELEASE: Furutech proudly announces the release of the new Flow-28 NCF inline power filter, with integrated radio frequency interference (RFI) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering – a high-performance, cost-effective solution that draws on more than 15 years of technical innovation and refinement in the company’s inline filter series.
Continue reading Furutech launches new Flow-28 NCF inline power filter
PRESS RELEASE: Furutech, Japanese manufacturer of ultra-refined audio and video cable and accessories, introduces the new Project V1-S high performance speaker cable, the latest addition to the brand’s flagship Project series.
Continue reading New Project V1-S top-of-range speaker cable from Furutech
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