General writings from Lotus Hifi

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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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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The Superstars of 2024 / 2025

This year might have been our busiest year yet. No surpise then that the year was also peppered with some very powerful new products, most new to market although some simply just new to the UK or to Lotus. Way back 8 years ago I wrote a "stars of 2016" article and after such a successful 2024 it might be informative to do the same again, to create a quick roundup of the items that shone so brightly here in the Lotus demo room and indeed, in customers' homes. WADAX STUDIO PLAYER, £37,500 Superstars are of course [...]

17th December 2024|
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GOLDILOCKS VINYL: Yatrus vs. Taurus

Its taken over 40 years for digital to match or indeed exceed the best vinyl setups. Now at last with the WADAX Atlantis Reference we have CD, file and streaming playback which can be as vivid, as dynamic and as alive as the best pressings played on the worlds best turntables using the finest phono preamps. But it comes at great cost, around £250,000 of Streamer/DAC and optical interface as a starting point, in excess for £500,000 for the whole hog. This elucidates an important point. At the very upper end digital costs a lot more than the very [...]

10th September 2024|
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INTRODUCING HEMINGWAY CABLES

First a small warning. This is a long article. This is a very important brand and the products are unusual in their technology and not so easy to understand. I also estimate that the impact of Hemingway to Lotus will be enormous. Early traction and sales already bear this out. Not only are we talking about a very exceptional wire but one that possesses an ingenious inherent cleaning effect which appears to exert its technology throughout the entire system, something that I don’t believe has ever been seen in the industry before. So I have taken my [...]

22nd September 2023|
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The Digital Cable

Over the last year or so the USB cable has received a fair bit of attention from our brands Shunyata and Tara Labs. The performance ceiling of this cable and associated technological know how, the best that is currently available, has been shifting upwards dramatically and this has underlined more than ever before something that we already knew but that now needs spelling out very clearly to customers: The USB cable (or digital cable) might be the most important cable, probably equal in influence and importance to the speaker cables. I talk to new customers regularly who are using say [...]

19th March 2021|
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Optimising the Network – a HUGE source of noise

Most of our systems are plugged into the home network these days. Our streamers and servers are attached to the network to be controlled from our Ipads and if we are not playing files directly from a network attached hard drive, we are using streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz, pulling music from the deep recesses of the web. The problem is the home network is a large and very complex source of noise. There are many noise factors with USB and ethernet cables, phase noise from consumer grade network clocks, noise from cheap router/dataswitch power supplies and even [...]

25th November 2020|
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NAIM TO VITUS – IN 2020

It has been almost 5 years since I wrote my original Naim to Vitus article and 7 years since I started this whole paradigm. It feels like a lifetime ago, so much has happened since. In that time we have moved probably over 100 Naim owners out of their green boxes and into Danish Highend. It is such a well-trodden and proven pathway now and it happens here every single month. I pioneered this philosophy and methodology and evangelised its success and ease far and wide, not just in the UK but across Europe and even in the US [...]

21st May 2020|
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ALLNIC Factory Visit 2019

Here at Lotus we take on a new brand only very rarely and only after exhaustive research and scrutiny. We drop a brand though even less frequently, something we hate doing and something that there really shouldn't ever be a need to do if you select properly in the first place. Occasionally of course, the political landscape or business approach of a company can alter which means it's suitability wanes but thankfully this is a very rare event and to date in 9 years of trading we have only had to let go of a very [...]

15th December 2019|
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Life after the Linn LP12 SE ?

Like my original Naim to Vitus writings, the LP12SE to Brinkmann Bardo upgrade path has become so commonplace here at Lotus that I felt it was finally time to sit down and explain it all in detail. Many LP12 owners with the Keel and Radikal have been stuck at an upgrade dead end for some years now. Whilst having fun with small additions like the various third party top plates, counterweights and bearing modifications does bring about additional worthy improvements within the performance sphere of the Linn, the truth is that moving into the very cheapest deck we sell here [...]

13th April 2019|
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