T.H.E. Show Newport 2011

The Lotus Group

Michael Lavorgna  |  Jun 6, 2011

"Gut wrenching." That’s from my notes and they appear to have been written in a shaky hand. Joe Cohen of the Lotus Group gathered a group of gear together that can knock you off your seat or perhaps soothe your inner savage beast with some delicacy when called for.

The system—Lotus Group Granada G2 Loudspeakers with X-1 DSP crossover, room correction, and a 500W woofer amp ($74,500/system), Aesthetix Atlas hybrid stereo amplifier ($8000/each—the equipment list graciously provided by The Lotus Group lists 2), SMc Audio VRE-1B preamplifier ($15,950), Aesthetix Io Eclipse phono stage ($15,500), Hanss T-60 turntable ($7000), Oyaide STB-MS LP Stabilizer ($1599), Ortofon T-110 tonearm ($1599), Ortofon Winfield cartridge ($3750), dCS Puccini CD/SACD Player ($17,999), and a dCS Puccini Clock ($5499). All cable was from PranaWire, with the exception of the Acrolink 8N-RPH 5 Pin/RCA Phono cable ($2450). An Oyaide MTB-4 R1 Power Distribution box ($800) was also in use.

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Submitted by Pro-Audio-Tech on October 9, 2011 - 7:51am

This was one of my favorite sounding rooms!

Speakers were great and there seemed to be a synergy with the Aesthetix too, warm yet dynamic. That Hanss turntable appeared to be a great value for the buck, may have to look into that rig. Not that wild about Ortofon but I was told the table is also set up for an SME arm, probably a better option. Maybe with a nice Benz LPS or a Dynavector cartridge.

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