“The Grand Master is so truly supreme in resolution, transparency, spatial recreation, neutrality and any other parameter I can name that it’s impossible for me not say what I usually try to avoid:‘This may be the best cartridge I’ve ever heard.’” Ken Kessler Hi Fi News 2021
Generate positive and negative ions to neutralize and remove the static charge from vinyl records.
The flagship of the DS Audio product lines, the new DS Master1 optical cartridge features the improved optical-mechanical design, wire-suspen sion, Sapphire cantilever and the micro-ridge stylus. The Master1 preamp/equalizer has the fully independent dual-mono discrete circuits with the single-ended RCA and balanced XLR outputs, as well as three low frequency cutoff points.
The HS-001 Solid Head Shell adopts both an upper and lower pin structure, equalizing the pressure on the contacts and applying force evenly across the connection to the tonearm.
"I think it could be the sixth biggest game-changer in cartridges in three decades. The other five? its older siblings." Hi Fi News Ken Kessler
The ST-50 Stylus cleaner is equipped with a micro-dust cleaning gel specially designed for laboratory clean- room applications.
The DS-W2 is an ‘optical generator’ cartridge with a number of trickle-down technologies first implemented on the company’s flagship Master1 cartridge – “Emulating the Master” as DS Audio states.