Price: $12,500

Website: www.emmlabs.com

Jason said: If you really, truly want to find out where a vinyl rig can take your system, man, oh man, do you ever need to check out the DS-EQ1 combined with one of DS Audio’s cartridges.

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Read the SoundStage! Hi-Fi review.

The gist: A paradigm-shifting analog component?