People tend to like to buy amplifiers more than anything else but the truth is the bar is so high now that they are a lot less important than other parts of the system. Every amplifier we sell makes for an utterly staunch, neutral and highly transparent foundation for any system and even if you build something around our cheapest amps, and furnish it with good setup and ancillaries, it will still be an incredible sounding system.

The low box count, small real estate system is something we really specialise in. This is partly because it’s what the UK market demands but then it’s also because these days our Integrated amplifiers are so high performing that we do not advocate a pre-power or mono amplifiers until the customer has obtained a top level source and Loudspeakers, and also fully finished the system off with excellent cables, mains and isolation/resonance control systems. And this system will likely be fast approaching a very large amount of money so many customers simply never need to be looking at pre/power.

Many newcomers to Lotus are migrating from the best system from Naim or Linn, so Klimax electronics or 500DR series. All of our Integrated amplifiers here regardless of price are more transparent, more dynamic, more real sounding, more tactile and alive, more neutral and natural. That’s to start with though because once you furnish them with high end mains leads, support systems and cables, unlike a Linn or Naim system which can never really be improved by very much, the performance envelope of our electronics increases quite dramatically. Because the aural appeal of our equipment is not based around an inherent “sound signature” but rather, founded upon a low noise, high bandwidth, high transparency philosophy, when you open up the floodgates in the all the ancillaries around it, you tap into so much more extra ability. That is to say the sound becomes more and more real and alive and hence more musical and engaging.