BUYING YOUR FIRST HIGH-END SYSTEM

Although our website features many of the world’s most prestigious and expensive audio products, a significant part of what we do is focused on introductory high-end systems starting from around £40,000 for a complete setup. Helping people make their very first move into genuine high-end audio remains one of the most rewarding things we do. Most people who visit us for the first time are not newcomers to hi-fi. They've often spent a long time gradually building a system they're proud of and have happily owned brands such as Linn or Naim for decades. They know what they [...]

28th June 2026|
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Lotus Suggested Systems #9

JUNIOR SOULNOTE £43,630 This is an important system, something deeply compelling and almost educational. Maybe it marks a line in the sand, a new benchmark ? This is true certainly as far as Lotus is concerned. Against the wider industry ? Who knows. What I do know is I get to hear a lot of equipment every year and all new products here get trialled against the existing giant killers we have previously cherry picked and my opinion is that you will have to search very hard and wide to locate an Integrated Amplifier and DAC equivalent to the [...]

11th May 2026|
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Lotus Suggested Systems #8

WADAX JMF ROCKPORT £545,890 We will be moving onto some fantastic budget systems in the sub £50,000 category very soon, that I promise, but for the moment we need to cover an important reference system which marks the culmination of many years hard work and planning . In the ultra high end segment we are obviously known for creating beautiful systems from Tidal Audio. The demand has grown strongly over the last 9 years to the point where now in the UK in customer’s homes, Tidal Audio electronics are probably the most ubiquitous out of all the industries [...]

22nd March 2026|
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HEMINGWAY FACTORY VISIT

I am sluggishly wandering through the circuitous elevated alleyways of Itaewon, one of Seoul’s more vibrant and international districts, looking for some decent barbeque. Today though everywhere is closed and there’s very few people in sight; it’s a ghost town. The weather app on my my iPhone tells me its 92% humidity and it feels it too. This is the middle of Korea’s summer and many Seoulites have left for the coast or the islands to escape the high heat. Maybe people just avoid stepping outdoors altogether at this time ? This is certainly a whole different feeling to [...]

30th December 2025|
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Demo LYNX arrive

Presenting the new Lotus demo set of the breakthrough Rockport LYNX which dazzled the crowds at Munich this year and were recently awarded The Absolute Sound's "Ultra High End Loudspeaker of the Year". The important tech to understand with LYNX is the cabinet construction. Like the flagship LYRA, LYNX is created from a single piece 84kg aluminium casting with internal stiffening ribs. This one piece continuous monocoque contains all the topology needed to build the loudspeaker so that means no joins, connections, fasteners or structural complexities which can compromise the stiffness and absolute absence of [...]

26th December 2025|
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Lotus Suggested Systems #7

SOULNOTE MEET JOSEPH £90,035 The reasons behind Suggested System are numerous. Firstly to continue talking about Soulnote who are still relatively new to Lotus but already having a huge impact, secondly to quickly introduce the amazing new Joseph Loudspeakers to you, thirdly to illustrate very clearly the wonderful synergy between Soulnote and Joseph, and finally to showcase a vinyl system for a change, something that we do specialise in, despite the fact that the vast majority of people these days want systems built around Qobuz and Tidal. THE RATE OF CHANGE First an important note to [...]

8th December 2025|
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JOSEPH PULSAR & PERSPECTIVE

THE LOUDSPEAKER PROBLEM Speakers are arguably the most important part of your system and the most difficult choice you will make. They are by far the hardest item to design and manufacture because of their propensity to introduce a very large amount of colouration and inaccuracy into the sound. Engineering all the colouration and noise out of a transducer, so that it has no inherent character, so that it does not introduce any sound of its own, so that it acts only as a perfectly transparent and almost indetectable three dimensional window back to the music, is nothing [...]

5th October 2025|
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JOSEPH AUDIO – New to the UK

I am very pleased to announce that in partnership with our staunch friends, UK importers Kog Audio, we have finally brought Joseph Audio to the UK. These speakers genuinely excite me and I think they are going to have a very powerful and long lasting future here. They truly sound incredible here in the Lotus demo room. Startlingly transparent, see through and alive. They perform so highly, sound so naturally right and appealing, in such a small footprint too, and the pricing is quite frankly an anomaly in today's marketplace. We have shaved margins and optimised shipping from the [...]

20th September 2025|
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JMF Audio – Exclusive to LOTUS

In 2025, as Tidal Audio moves into its own dedicated demonstration room to be showcased more as a complete single marque solution, our plan was always to expand out and develop the original Lotus demo room into its own fully functioning ultra high end space which can exist independently. This is a space offering sonic bliss along a similar financial scale, more choice from more of the world’s most ingenious manufacturers, a treasure trove of exquisite and exclusive audio equipment unrivalled in the UK. Finding the correct amplification brand for this expansion was the most difficult task, near impossible [...]

21st August 2025|
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Lotus Suggested Systems #6

SOULNOTE GETS SERIOUS £217,179 Setup, setup, setup ... and always finish the system. Just one or two sub-standard components can let the side down, skew the frequency response, harden or brighten the treble. Even a basic system prepared here for customer demo is underpinned by high-quality mains, cabling, network components and noise reducing support systems. These ancillaries don’t have to be ridiculously expensive. They can be the giant-killing entry models, the cheapest power cords, the first rung ethernet cable, the lowest level of isolation footers, but the important thing is, there’s no single noisy or coloured component anywhere [...]

24th July 2025|
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