{"id":4191,"date":"2025-07-16T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T17:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:34:40","slug":"ebi-audio-arrives-in-europe-with-the-khumar-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/ebi-audio-arrives-in-europe-with-the-khumar-cartridge\/","title":{"rendered":"EBI-Audio arrives in Europe with the Khumar cartridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High-fidelity is now an international success story, but it&#8217;s not every day we get to tell you about a new Indian manufacturer, and today we are delighted to introduce you to EBI-Audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created in 2015 by engineer Tariq Shafeeque, EBI-Audio was launched with the Hansdhwani vinyl turntable. To match it, the Carbon Classy arm was offered with or separately, and more recently an MC cartridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of the brand&#8217;s products to be imported by The Vinyl Access (distributor for all Europe), the Khumar is a low-level cartridge with very low impedance, ideal for connection to phono preamps capable of offering signal processing below 20 \u03a9. Handcrafted in a black ebony shell, it uses a 0.28 mm boron cantilever on which is placed a NUDE shibata III diamond imported from Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weighing just 8.8 g and with a compliance of 15 \u03bcm\/mN, the Khumar is easy to use and adaptable to most arms, even if this Indian cartridge comes in a price range that proves its elitist approach, as it is sold in Europe at 2 300 \u20ac incl. VAT. We will be listening soon to tell you more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>16\/07\/2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-fidelity is now an international success story, but it&#8217;s not every day we get to tell you about a new Indian manufacturer, and today we are delighted to introduce you to EBI-Audio. Created in 2015 by engineer Tariq Shafeeque, EBI-Audio was launched with the Hansdhwani vinyl turntable. To match it, the Carbon Classy arm was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":4192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}