Crafted in Japan with a body carved from the Tyrolean tonewood from which Stradivari made violins, the EX700 is Analog Relax’s all new an moving-coil phono cartridge.
Billed as the brand’s middle-tier model, its spruce wood is sourced from South Tyrol in Northern Italy with a special ‘violin varnish’ finish applied using a formulation and application technique that took three years to perfect.

Other refined elements include a solid boron cantilever and custom made line-contact diamond stylus feeding high purity copper coils and neodymium magnets.

Priced at £7,288, visit Analog Relax and Absolute Sounds in the UK.