DS Audio TB-100

Promising ‘a new era of analogue sound’, DS Audio launches its first all-tube energiser/equaliser to partner its growing range of optical pick-up cartridges. Has it succeeded?

Review: Ken Kessler Lab: Paul Miller This just may be the most self-fulfilling review I’ve ever written. DS Audio has unleashed a valve energiser and equaliser, the TB-100, for its optical cartridges. Up to this point, every one of its cartridges has been launched with a matching solid-state energiser of relative or comparable price, but the TB-100 has been released on its own. Because every DS Audio cartridge will work with any of the energisers regardless of price, this time it’s all about the tubes. At £17,500, the TB-100 joins the existing range of five energiser/equalisers, at a price point just below the middle rank. It’s costlier than the DS-W3 (£9105) but less expensive than the DS Master 3 (£18,885), while above that reside the two-chassis DS Grand Master (£42,200)…

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