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DS AUDIO GRAND MASTER CARTRIDGE & EQ REVIEW BY KEN KESSLER | HIFI NEWS
PRESS | POSTED FEBRUARY 18, 2021
"...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, HiFi News
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