PLS Labs Free Your Cartridge
Throughout history, humanity has devoted an extraordinary amount of effort to making life easier. We invented the wheel, the steam engine, electricity, computers, and the Internet. The audio industry has followed a similar path. Once upon a time, listening to music meant winding up a gramophone by hand. Later, all you had to do was put a record on a turntable. Today, almost any recording ever made is just a few taps away on a smartphone. You might think we've finally reached a point where listening to music couldn't possibly get any easier. Fortunately, there are still people who find such simplicity deeply unsatisfying. Instead of sending music directly from a streamer to an amplifier, they'd rather convert the electrical signal into mechanical vibrations, feed those vibrations into a phono cartridge, and then convert them back into an electrical signal. Does that sound completely ridiculous? Perhaps. But that's essentially the idea behind Free Your Cartridge, a new technology developed by PLS Labs (Pure Laminar Stream Laboratories).