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The Lotus Group is proud to represent the SMC VRE-1C Virtual Reality Engine Preamplifier from Steve McCormack - The New Standard in Highest Performance Audio

Ryan Coleman Reviews the VRE-1C at UltraAudio.com

"The ability of the VRE-1C to retrieve details heretofore unheard wasn’t limited to the midrange and treble; bass articulation, too, was a revelation. The VRE-1C was able to render much greater accuracy of pitch while also plumbing the lowest octave."

"Anyone...can be certain that the SMc Audio VRE-1C Reference is among the quietest, most resolving preamplifiers on the market, able to achieve those qualities without committing sins in tonality."


Brilliant Reception for The Lotus Group Granada Loudspeaker
at both RMAF 2009 and CES 2010

"...one of the finest systems I've ever heard, and not JUST at a show."
   Greg Weaver, Positive-Feedback.com Issue 47

"I could have sat and listened to this system for hours."
   Robert Harley, 'The Absolute Sound', Page 12 Issue 199, January 2010

"...the sound was the best I have ever heard in a demo room."
   Roger Gordon Positive-Feedback.com Issue 47

"What it was doing that so many other speakers weren’t was sounding flat, uncolored, and utterly coherent."
   Jonathan Valin, AVGuide.com January 12, 2010

"You had to be there with me to witness an absolutely amazing set of speakers... SINGING WITH LUCIANO PAVORITI'S thrilling glory."
    Jim Merod - Positive Feedback


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Link to Hanss T-10 Turntable Brochure

Dealer List


August 2010

Posted at AudioReview.com about our room at CAAS:

"The Lotus Group Room.

Featuring the absolutely gorgeous sounding Granada speaker, this demo was totally stunning and perfect in every way. No matter what was played, this system was dynamic, clean, and at times extremely spooky real. The speakers have a totally seducing open quality that really drew me in to the music, no matter what was played. I almost missed this room, but standing at the elevator I heard this excellent Jazz recording featuring a three piece group highlighted by Jimmy Smith on the Hammond B-3 organ. Since I own this organ, and have played it my entire life, I am very familiar with its tube like sweet tonal quality. The bass pedals sounded just like they should, deep, full and powerful, with no overhang between notes. The organ sounded like it was in the room, and I thought it really was before entering the room. When I asked the gentleman to put on my recordings, he had no reservation in playing them at realistic levels. The sound was enveloping, extraordinarily powerful and effortless with VERY accurate timbre and tonality. From the bottom up, nothing stuck out in the mix, which had a very wide and deep sound stage(again as they should) which allowed you to hear the air mix with the horns and drums in a way that sounded like I was at a drum corps show. The inner voices of the horns were clearly rendered, highs wide open and clear, and bass that was tight and impactful without being overwhelming and wolly. I was in this room for 30 minutes and didn't want to leave. This system was addictive to the hilt, and I wanted to take it home."

forums.audioreview.com

January 2010

New Products from Oyaide:

  • Genesis - RCA Connector with Clamping Collet Chuck - Image - pdf
  • SPSL - Spade Lugs with Stainless Grub Screws - Image - pdf
  • Tunami II SP & B- Speaker cable with SPSL Spade Lugs or SRBN Banana Plugs - Image - pdf
  • Tunami Terzo - Interconnect Cable with Genesis RCA Plugs or Focus1 XLR plugs - pdf
  • HTSF Silver Carbon Headshell and
  • INS-BS and INS-BS Plus Isolation devices - pdf

Review of The Oyaide DB510 Digital Cable:

"the most tonally accurate digital cable I have tried in my system and the timber could be best described as “analog like” and neutral" "Macro dynamics are “explosive” Link

January 2010 - CES Coverage

"I was most impressed by its tremendous control and detail in the midrange in the bass, notable low extension, and seamless integration between the woofers and Feastrex driver...the beauty of this speaker is something special." Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile CES 2010 Show Report

"In The Lotus Group room, Granada loudspeakers and Prana Wire. This system was at the top of the list for overall musicality and engagement... way to go Joe!" Dave and Carol Clark's CES 2010 Show Report in Positive-Feedback.com

October 2009 - RMAF - Room 550

Jonathan Valin confers "Best of Show" and "Best Introduction" status on the Granada Loudspeaker: "...this speaker was so good it earned one of my little asterisks as a "Best of Show" contender (and I only gave out a handful of these). ...this is a speaker that may truly be great" Jonathan Valin, AVguide.com, October, 2009.

October 2009 - RMAF - Room 550

The Lotus Group will demonstrate the new Granada Loudspeaker. Also on active display will be the Hanss T-60 turntable, Hanss PA-60 two chassis phono preamplifier, the Hanss CD-20 category busting, upsampling CD player, along with many other new products from our manufacturers.

August 2009 - Audio Replas Review

"The addition of the Audio Replas' mat and stabilizer to my Clearaudio turntable gave me all the bigness and weight of the In UniSon, without any loss of transparency or speed. This combination created by far the best and most beautiful sound I have ever heard from any source component in my system."

Jack Roberts reviewing the TS OPT300 HR Turntable Mat and OPS-1 HR LP Stabilizer at
Dagogo.com

March 2009 - PranaWire Review

"...there was a panoramic airy soundstage with seemingly limitless depth. It was spectacular! I haverarely if ever heard such a combination of musicality and resolution. String tone was perfect. The entire presentation was perhaps the most realistic portrayal of an orchestral performance I have ever enjoyed. "

Stephen Marsh reviewing the PranaWire Nataraja Speaker Cable at 6moons.com

 

March 2009 - The Lotus Group announces it has been granted the US Distribution rights for Hanss Acoustics. Link to pdf catalog.

 


February 2009
- Mike Silverton of StereoTimes.com reviews Oyaide receptacles and Acoustic Revive Cables. R-1 receptacle: "The differences I heard transported me to a better place. Dimensionality! Transparency! Interstellar silence! The best highs this side of smack! And all this before a proper burn-in! "

Acoustic Revive cables: "The magic is in the midrange, audio’s heartland. Get the midrange right and you’re home. Further, the midrange’s rightness in no way diminishes speed, nor is there diminution at the spectrum’s extremes. And yet characterizing something as 'magic' is likely to leave the wrong impression, and we are, after all, dealing in impressions – that’s what audiophila’s about. You’re better served if I tell you that via this system AR’s cables reveal no character whatever. They’re simply not there."

 

CES 2009 - Positive Feedback awards the Lotus Group room - featuring the Maxxhorn Lumination loudspeaker (Maxxhorn is now Affirm Audio) with the Feastrex D5 Monster alnico drivers, PranaWire cabling, Acoustic Revive cables and accessories and Oyaide cables and accessories - an Audio Oasis Award.

Audio Oasis Award Positive Feedback CES 09

Dagogo Report on Lotus Group CES 09

January 2009 Anthony Nicosia of Enjoy the Music.com reviews the fo.Q lineup. "I recommend purchasing not just one of the fo.Q devices but all, or at least as many as you can."

 

 



 

Oyaide Across 750RR Interconnect awarded the Diapason d'Or -
Gold Medal award – by France's highly regarded Hi Fidelity Magazine "Diapason" November 2008






August 2008 - Oyaide Releases the Focus 1 XLR Connectors with one touch, push-pull ball bearing locking mechanism and machined phosphor bronze inner body and outer barrels. State of the art performance from Oyaide.

 





August 2008 - Oyaide Releases the SRBN-1 banana plug machined from solid deoxidized phosphor bronze and plated with Silver and Rhodium. Dual 5mm solid stainless steel grub screws are used to secure the cable without any solder.