Furutech’s high-performance cables, connectors and noise-reducing accessories win over a gamut of different reviewers in The Absolute Sound’s latest Editors’ Choice Awards, which features the magazine’s selection of hi-fi products that live up to the challenge of delivering superb performance in larger systems and dedicated listening rooms.
Continue reading Furutech receives five of The Absolute Sound Editors’ Choice Awards 2025
PRESS RELEASE: Serbian audio brand Soulines’ new tt9 turntable and KiVi M3 unipivot tonearm are now available to vinyl lovers in the UK seeking affordable high-end performance, thanks to a new distribution agreement with Sound Fowndations.
PRESS RELEASE: DS Audio promises “a new era of analogue sound” with the launch the TB-100, a vacuum valve / tube phono equalizer designed to partner with the company’s pioneering optical cartridges.
Launched in summer 2024, DS Audio’s new entry-level optical cartridge and equalizer borrows ‘third generation’ optical technology from the company’s flagship Grand Master model, aiming to deliver superb performance at a remarkably accessible price point. Chris Frankland puts it to the test in the latest issue of Hi-Fi Plus. Continue reading “The light fantastic”: Hi-Fi Plus reviews DS Audio’s entry-level DS-E3 optical cartridge and equalizer
Japanese hi-fi cable and accessories experts Furutech have spent decades on research, development and ongoing innovation to enable discerning listeners to get ever-closer to their favorite music, using their ‘pure transmission’ technologies to allow the delicate musical signal to remain as unimpeded and as crystal-clear as possible. Neil Gader at US magazine The Absolute Sound finds them “difficult to part with”.
Is there an award that hasn’t been won by one or more of DS Audio’s pioneering optical cartridges? The brand and its products continue to wow reviewers and customers alike – and with good reason, given designer Tetsuaki Aoyagi’srelentless commitment to further advancing his innovative technologies and designs, and equally to bringing the benefits of optical technology to ever-more accessible price points, thanks to his judicious use of trickle-down technology.
“Electrical noise is everywhere,” writes Neil Gader in his recent ‘Short Takes Equipment Report’ for US audio magazine The Absolute Sound, “and it bombards our electronics.” Fortunately, Japanese cable and accessories experts Furutech are ever on the case, with a raft of proprietary solutions – and they work! Continue reading “The little things that matter”: The Absolute Sound reviews Furutech’s NCF Clear Line RCA and XLR signal line optimizers
While the Awards may have changed to a new format in 2025, their recognition of multiple products from the Clearaudio range remains a constant. Seven of the German analogue brand’s components are featured in the November issue, which focuses specifically on hi-fi designed for the typical home listening / living room.
Furutech’s Clear Line range was launched in 2020 with the NCF Clear Line AC optimizer, a compact device designed to instantly enhance the quality of your system’s power supply. This was followed in 2023 by the NCF Clear Line-RCA and -XLR passive signal line optimizers, created to achieve a similar upgrade via your system’s signal line.
“Those wizards of trickledown tech are at it again,” writes Ken Kessler in the magazine’s October issue, as “DS Audio’s new entry-level model gives you a taste of the [flagship] Masters series at less than a tenth of the price!” Continue reading “An absolute cracker”: Hi-Fi News review DS Audio’s new entry-level DS-E3 optical cartridge
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