2023 Awards from around the world

December is of course Awards month and this year there are quite a few Lotus products that have won some of the very top gongs for 2023, and many of these items from the Likes of Tidal Audio, Thrax Audio and Tara Labs are also only exclusively available here at Lotus Hifi. Here is a quick run down with links so you can take a look at the full articles. TIDAL CONTROS First our most popular and most sold single product from the last 16 months or so, the £56,000 Tidal box [...]

17th December 2023|
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To close 2023 – a £700,000 uber system

We finish 2023 on a high note with some of the very best equipment money can buy, and simultaneously we elicit a bold hint about the territory we might spend more time in in the near future. Just as sound quality will never go backwards, High End audio can only ever go higher. Painstakingly assembled at chez Lotus for the festive period is a no-holds-barred £700,000+ state of the art digital system comprising Wadax Atlantis Reference DAC and Streamer plus uprated power supplies and glass optical connection, Thrax Libra statement 300B preamplifier, Tidal Ferios mono amps and Rockport [...]

29th November 2023|
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Twittering Machines – Atria II review

Michael Lavorgna of Twittering Machines reviewed the Rockport Atria II, one of our favourite loudspeakers. Unsurprisingly, the Rockports during their stay brought music to life "to a degree greater than any other speaker I’ve reviewed. By a significant margin." Read the full review here "I want to stress the in-room solidity and precision of the Rockport speakers way with music because this is one real stand-out take notice quality that never failed to grab my attention and delight, making music sound and feel so damned present and alive I could not ask for anything more. Stunningly real, shockingly [...]

8th November 2023|
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Twittering Machines – reviews of Thrax Enyo & Ares

Michael Lavorgna of Twittering Machines has added a fine review of the Thrax Enyo integrated amplifier with onboard phono and DAC/Streamer. This now partners their previous review of the all transistor Thrax Ares integrated. Michael found the Enyo to have' a completely relaxed yet thoroughly gripping presentation' with 'bountiful fat and fully formed bass response', a 'groove machine' with correct and ripe timbre. "The last thing, the very last thing I want to be thinking about when listening to music is dissecting it like a corpse as if the heart of music can only be found in bits [...]

22nd October 2023|
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Primary Control at LOTUS

Primary Control comes to Lotus as an exciting new analogue option. Bernd Hemmen is the visionary behind Netherlands based Primary Control and primarily a designer of beautifully realised tonearms. On offer are 4 quasi-unipivot models ranging from £3850 to £26,850. At the low end the Arrow tonearm offers exceptional build and ability for it’s more modest price and at the flagship end, the FCL Tonearm with its unique field coil loaded frictionless bearing has been hailed by some of the world’s most prolific turntable collectors as the one of the world’s best. The Kinea is Primary Control’s first [...]

19th October 2023|
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Tara Labs Muse – Editors Choice Award

Tara Labs Muse interconnects and speaker cables, a firm and very popular favourite here at Lotus, have been extensively reviewed by Matej Isak of Mono and Stereo. They were an easy recipient of the 2023 Mono and Stereo editors choice award. "TARA Labs Muse cables furthermore cemented their standout ability to convey dynamism, never at the expense of sounding fierce or forced. They simply disappear just performing their task expertly, but not ever pushing at forte their signature." Read the full article here. Further Reading ParttimeAudiophile - Best Sound of Show, [...]

14th October 2023|
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HEMINGWAY CABLES FINALLY ARRIVE

I am very excited to announce our exclusive partnership wth Hemingway Audio from South Korea. Many customers will have already heard me talking about Hemingway and quite a few have had a listen already too, and purchased. Now it's time to open the portfolio up formally and release almost the entire suite of products up for shop and home demo. If you’re developing a mould breaking supercar then it either breaks 7 minutes at the Nurburgring or it doesn’t. The measure of most of its success is fixed and indisputable. In High End audio however, it [...]

20th July 2023|
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KALISTA ARRIVES EXCLUSIVELY AT LOTUS HIFI

How do you proceed when you are already one of the world’s premier manufacturers of High End Digital replay equipment but then go on to produce something which reaches so much further out into the stars that it needs very clear differentiation from your existing produce ? Well in the case of industry luminaries ‘Métronome Technologie’ based just a stones throw from Toulouse, the answer in 2003 was to create the Kallista, a multi award wining masterpiece CD player and then go on to spawn a whole new flagship brand from that one single statement product. [...]

23rd June 2023|
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The Absolute Sound – Best Sound 2023 – TIDAL BUGATTI

More gongs for Tidal Audio. The Absolute Sound has named the Tidal for Bugatti Royale system as the best sound of Munich High End 2023. Andrew Quint writes: "What we heard was astounding: holographic imaging, instantaneous transients, and a completely neutral rendering of color and texture." Read the full article here. Further Reading ParttimeAudiophile - Best Sound of Show, "Industry Reset" Tidal Audio website - Tidal for Bugatti  Tidal Audio Blogs - Lotus Hifi Tidal Audio product page - Lotus Hifi

10th June 2023|
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TIDAL PIANO G3 – review by Absolute Sound

Anthony Cordesman has published a very comprehensive review of the updated Tidal Piano G3 floorstander which goes into some considerable depth and includes a very interesting interview with Tidal MC Jorn Janczak. Despite experiencing the G3 in a system significantly lower in performance than the speakers would like or even rightly deserve, Anthony still manages to understand their strengths and overall ethos. Read the full article here. "When the recording was good enough and natural enough, the Piano G3 provided a level of musical detail that was exceptionally revealing, without a trace of hardening even at [...]

2nd June 2023|
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