£60,000, cartridge, anyone,

[graystoke4]

Hi, received my HiFi News, mag today, and they are reviewing,a DS Audio Grand Master EX, cartridge, all 4 pages of it, this is an Optical pick-up, so you also get a huge power supply, in one box, and a energiser/equaliser, in identical casing,
Pricing goes like this, £18,995, for the cartridge and £42,200, for the PSU and equaliser, reviewed by Ken Kessler and Paul Miller, do they like it, OOooo, yes they do,
Not read the whole review properly, but they do not state what TT was used, which i thought was a bit strange, and what the rest of the system was,
It does have a canti-lever and needle one piece design, which i have never heard of, but then again i'm not a great TT, guru, here is a link, https://ds-audio-w.biz/products/1118/

 

[AudioAl]

Woo bargain , a lot more ££££££ carts are available.

 

[Ben&Ted]

The good thing is the tech filters down quickly to their lower end cartridges. £2k - £6k.

You can mix and match energizers to cartridges and there is a third party energizer https://www.nixiekits.eu/product.php?key=ds_audio for them aswell.

I have it on a short list of cartridges to dem/have before I meet my maker.

 

[boegelund]

There seem to be no limit prices on certain analog kit
something for an oil sheik.

 

[chartz]

I’ll keep buying CDs. That’s ridiculous. I won’t read the review.

 

[badger748]

I mean it’s a lot of cash, I can’t afford it, still curious though. I’ll be brave and put on my big girl pants to plough through a few pages of review. Bring on the ridicule!

 

[Craig B]

[CHRIS FRANKLAND]Easily beaten by an audio-technica AT-VM95C.[/CHRIS FRANKLAND]

 

[Darren]

I’ll keep buying CDs. That’s ridiculous. I won’t read the review.

I'll read it. I love reading about exotic kit. Great fun.

 

[chartz]

[CHRIS FRANKLAND]Easily beaten by an audio-technica AT-VM95C.[/CHRIS FRANKLAND]

Very funny. You’ve just made my day
Those were the days, TFR and all.

 

[Howdy]

[CHRIS FRANKLAND]Easily beaten by an audio-technica AT-VM95C.[/CHRIS FRANKLAND]

And utterly demolished by K9.

 

[kernow]

Hold my beer

https://neverheardbefore.com/founderseries/nfs-00/

 

[chartz]

Really?

 

[Woodface]

It’s amazing the lengths people will go to compensate for a technically compromised format.

 

[chartz]

And I’m sure some of them will try to get the best from digitally mastered records

 

[leroyd]

It’s amazing the lengths people will go to compensate for a technically compromised format.

Vinyl fans unite and demolish such an utterance

 

[Lurch]

Heard one of these carts 2 yrs ago with the Grandmaster energiser at Guildford hifi on a Tech Das ll/Graham Hantom combo, when I went to audition a pair of used ML Summits (which I bought) it was a very impressive detailed, airy expressive sound with awesome soundstaging. Definitely a memorable couple of hours listening, though my Bardo/12" Enterprise4/Koetsu RSP/BB3 combo got me about 80% of the way there when I fired it up on getting home.

 

[Woodface]

Vinyl fans unite and demolish such an utterance

Is this a Smiths song?

 

[stevec67]

There seem to be no limit prices on certain analog kit
something for an oil sheik.

It's just shoes and handbags for people who have lots of money but aren't interested in shoes or handbags.

 

[Shane2468]

Pay me 100k to flush it down the toilet.

S.

 

[Joe P]

I'm intrigued by this photo-electric conversion technology. I’m now wondering if some sort of optical system using, say, a laser beam could read the hills and hollers on a CD.

Well, wouldn't that be something, not that I could afford it. But, given time, I bet this laser technology will trickle down to the masses.

Joe