Perfect match

PRICE: £17,500 AVAILABLE: NOW WEB: DS-AUDIO-W.BIZ DS AUDIO IS promising: “a new era of analogue sound” with the launch its TB-100, a vacuum valve/tube phono equaliser designed to partner with the company’s optical cartridges from entry-level to top-of-range. The TB-100 is a dual mono, single-ended design with RCA outputs. It features four selectable bass curves and uses quad-matched ECC82 (12AU7) dual-triode valves/tubes, optimised specifically for this model. To ensure peak performance, the Japanese company says it employs proprietary in-house tools to minimise any variations in the valves/tubes during operation to within 1 percent (or 0.1dB). Each of the entirely independent channels is equipped with its own input valve/tube for voltage amplification and a second valve/tube to buffer the output. This minimalist two-stage architecture, coupled with the optical cartridge technology, has…