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DeVORE Fidelity Orangutan O/96 Speakers Now On Demo, These Are So Good!

Hi Everyone, Speakers really are a magical part of the HIFI chain aren't they, so my designs, technologies and thoughts behind the thousands of different versions that have come out over the decades so it is incredible that something comes along every now and again that really does take your breath away offering something very different and special to anything I have heard before, enter DeVore Fidelity. I have to admit until around 6 months ago I had never come across DeVore Fidelity s
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

New PrimaLuna Evo 300 Hybrid Amplifier + Black Michell GyroDec Now On Demo!

Hi All, So we've got 2 new products on demo that actually sound really good together, first is the new PrimaLuna Evo 300 Hybrid Integrated amplifier, so basically a Valve Preamp section with a Solid State 100 watt Power amp, I love a valve pre partnered with a solid state amp, it is how I run my system at home so to have it in an integrated makes perfect sense to me as you get the control and solidity at the bass end from the solid state amp section but the warmth in the mid from the valves
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Wilson Audio Announce The New LōKē Subwoofer, It’s Not Just About The Bass!

Hi Everyone, So anyone who knows me will know that I love Wilson Audio speakers and am also a huge believer of adding at least one subwoofer to a 2 channel system, ideally a pair, so the fact that Wilson Audio have just announced their new LōKē subwoofer is really great news. This is Wilson's smallest sub that is designed to work with any speaker but particularly the TuneTots, Sabrina's, Yvette's and DAW's and well any Wilson speakers really, I'm looking forward to trying it on our Ale
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

dCS Introduce New Apex Ring DAC to Rossini + Vivaldi, Come In To Compare Original Rossini Against Apex!!

Hi Everyone, So this is big news, dCS have just announced that after extensive research and development they have made major changes to the hardware portion of their Ring DAC and have developed an all-new analogue output stage taking both the Rossini DAC + Player and Vivaldi DAC to a whole new level. The great news also is that if you are an existing Rossini or Vivaldi owner you can send your unit back to dCS for it to be upgraded to full Apex Specification, please feel free to get in
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Defend, Defend & Defend, Pressure All The Way At Oulton Park!

We sponsor the Thursday Night Radical Race Series League Race which is broadcast every Thursday night at 9pm live on YouTube with full commentary, if you've not seen how much fun #esports is nowadays, especially #simracing on #iracing then please click the link below, I can honestly say that I've never been so relieved to see the chequered flag before -   If you'd like to get involved please visit www.iLoungeRacing.co.uk. Cheers, Paul.
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Chord Mojo 2 Now Available, Small but Cutting Edge Tech for Portable and Home!

Hi Everyone, So it is great to have a new product to talk about as over the last couple of years we have been starved of new releases really as everyone just tried to get through the pandemic and to be honest meet the increased demand and parts shortages that the HiFi industry has faced. The original Mojo was a huge success for Chord, a total game changer and created a whole new genre in HiFi, a really highend portable DAC/Headamp + Pre for sensible money that sounded amazing, it actua
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Kronos Sparta Turntable Now On Demo, Quite Sensational!

Hi All, So our Highend System is getting a bit spoilt at the moment, after adding the D'Agostino Momentum Pre/Power last week a few days later I was asked if I would like to borrow the Kronos Sparta Turntable for a few weeks by the UK distributor, being a big vinyl fan I just couldn't resist, always keen to try new kit and with Kronos I had always found their dual platter design curious so was really keen to have a listen, needles to say it didn't disappoint. It is built like no other
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

D'Agostino Momentum Preamplifier + S250 MxV Stereo Amp Now On Demo, Taking Music To The Next Level!

Hi Everyone, So all audiophiles will know this problem, you upgrade one part of your system which shows a weakness elsewhere, so that was the issue when we got our demo Wilson Audio Alexx V speakers, don't get me wrong we've got some great Pre's and amps here which sounded excellent on them but we just knew there was more performance to unleash from these excellent speakers, With the Taiko server matched with the dCS Vivaldi stack and our SME turntable partnered with Transparent Reference C
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Getting the Radical SR1 in the Showroom!

Hi Everyone, I'm full off good ideas me, as I am not racing the Radical at the moment as going to concentrate on racing the Lotus Elise for another year I thought it would be a good idea to put it in our new iLounge Racing Showroom as a centrepiece. Firstly it wasn't as easy as I thought due to the big step up to the room and also now it is in there I've not got something new coming to replace it so now it has got to come out, doh 🙄 Anyway, please find some pictures below of the f
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iLounge Racing is Open, Hurray, Welcome to the UK's Premium Demo Space for Motorsport Simulators!

Hi There, I'm really happy to announce that iLounge Racing is now open at HFL, from what started with a chat in a van 18 months ago has now resulted in a demo space where we have 4 simulators on demo from around £2000 to over £100,000. I'll keep it brief but the idea is that you can come along, experience how amazing simulators are now, try a few options, spec your preferred system and we will deliver and install. Whether it is a tool to get you quicker on track for racing or trac
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Vipers in iLounge Racing

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Melco Introduce the N50 SSD Player / Server + Bundle Package Promotion Info!

Hi Everyone, Just a quickie to say that Melco have recently released a new Player / Server called the N50, where this is interesting is that it includes a 3.84tb SSD Drive for £4999, their other SSD model, the Flagship N1ZS EX is £9995 so I can see the new N40 being the real sweet spot in the range as it makes the advantages of SSD Drives available to a much bigger audience, we have it on Permanent demo if you would like to come in and try it at any point. Please find a link to the ful
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Lotus Elise Trophy Season 1 Complete, Donington Photo Book!

Hi Everyone, So where did that season go? it only seems like yesterday we were collecting our new Lotus Elise looking forward to a new adventure and before you know it we have 7 race meetings under our belt and it is time to park the car ready for winter. Looking back it was a great season though, a lot of fun, if I'm honest at the start of the season I was surprised how quick the competition was, I was expecting to be straight on the pace but as the season progressed we got quicker and qui
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Vipers in Race Elise

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

STAX SR-X9000 Earspeakers 1st Impressions, Are They Now The Best Headphones In The World?

Hi There, So this for me is the biggest news in audio this year, Stax bringing out a new Reference Earspeaker which in my mind puts it straight to the top of the tree as a contender for the best headphone in the world, I had no idea these were coming till around 2 months ago so it has been a long wait but our demo pair finally arrived last Friday so they were plugged straight in for a quick comparison against my previous reference headphones, the Stax SR-009S, I run SR-009S's at home and re
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Naim Solstice Turntable Now on Demo + Imminent Naim Price Rise Info!

Hi all, Hope everyone is well, I just wanted to post that we now have the new Naim Solstice Limited Edition Turntable on permanent demonstration and bearing in mind this is Naim's first ever turntable it really is something to applaud, beautifully made and engineered but most importantly it sounds fantastic, I first tried it in my main Naim system which needless to say worked a treat but I have been wanting to add a turntable to my office system for sometime so it made sense, well to me any
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Brands Hatch Race Report, Pics + Videos!

Hi All, So the Brands Hatch Indy layout is one of the races I really look forward to every year as it really suits my driving style as to me it is just one big go kart track and although it is really technical with every corner seemingly having multiple ways through it I always seem to go well there. Thankfully that continued with our first trip there in the Elise where we had our best race weekend of the year, which was strange as my normal team where off racing elsewhere so I had Han
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Vipers in Race Elise

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

HiFi Lounge Walkthrough + iLounge Racing Sneak Peak!

Hi Everyone, As we haven't done any open days for quite some time, hopefully we can get back to normality next year regarding this, I thought it would be a good idea to do a walkthrough for anyone who hasn't been in recently as a fair bit has changed and we have some exciting new equipment here. Also after a year of planning we are very nearly ready to launch iLounge Racing so the progress of converting the headphone showroom into a simulator demo space can be seen also further into th
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Stax SR-X9000 Announced + Audeze LCD-5 & CRBN Headphones!

Hi Everyone, So the Highend Headphone market seems to have woken up all of a sudden, as a Stax SR-009S user myself it is the announcement of the new SR-X9000's that I am personally most excited about, these are Stax's new Reference Earspeaker, I struggle to think how they can improve on the SR-009S's to be honest but really can't wait to have a listen. I have been told we will be getting our demo pair very shortly so watch this space as I compare them against my SR-009S's, exciting tim
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Big Speakers on Demo from Magneplanar and Avantgarde!

Hi Everyone, Just a quickie to say that we have a couple of pairs of very special speakers in demo at the moment that we have borrowed from the distributors for a couple of demos so if you'd like a listen please get in touch to make an appointment. Magneplanar 30.7's Speakers certainly don't get much bigger than these, they really do give a wall of sound. I love Maggies, certainly not the easiest speakers to accommodate but if you can then they are well worth a listen as they
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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

SME 75th Anniversary Synergy Turntable now on Permanent Demo!

Hi All, So this could quite possible be the best bit of HiFi eye Candy out there, it looks great in the pics but is even more gorgeous for real, the Silver Anniversary finish, to celebrate SME's 75th Anniversary, is a £3000 premium over the standard black finish so that makes it £18,895 but it really is worth every penny if you can stretch to it. So what is the SME Synergy? Basically it is a Highend Plug and Play Turntable, all you need to do is plug it straight into a line input and y
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Vipers in SME

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Snetterton Photobook, Fire, Rain + New Livery!

Hi All, So for our Snetterton race weekend it was certainly a weekend like no other, basically it was British Summertime so we had plenty of rain but we also had a huge pit lane fire just when we were about to go out for our first race, basically a teams lorry caught fire and it took 2 fire engines to get it under control, luckily no one was injured but it meant we lost our first race and our 2nd race was re-scheduled for 6pm, this ended up being cut short due to a car stranded on the track
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Vipers in Race Elise

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Big Accuphase System on the Wilson Alexx V's, This Really Works!

Hi Everyone, The fun part with having a speaker here as accomplished as our demo Wilson Audio Alexx V Speakers is trying different equipment with them as they are so revealing you can totally change their character by trying a different brand, I recently got an enquiry from someone who wanted to try the Class A Accuphase Monoblocks along with their DAC and top of the line Preamp, needless to say we had to try them on the Alexx's and I have to say it is a pretty special combination, totally
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Vipers in Accuphase

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Vipers' Lotus and HiFi Blog

Wilson Audio Alexx V Update + HFL Promo Video!

Hi Everyone, So we have had our incredible Wilson Audio Alexx V Speakers for a month or so now and I have been running them everyday since they arrived and I think it is fair to say they are well and truly run in now and are sounding even better than when we first got them. I know it is the biggest cliche in the HiFi book but on our so called Highend system I am listening to albums and songs that I know so well and it really is like hearing them for the first time, there is so much mor
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Photobook From Round 4, Cadwell Park, The Prettiest Track in the UK!

Hi Everyone, Just a quick update from our Lotus Elise Trophy exploits, for the last round we headed to Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire which without doubt is the most picturesque race track in the UK, I must admit I’m always a little nervous when arriving there as it is very narrow with some really fast corners, it is also very undulating with not a lot of run off so get it wrong and it will bite but as always it worked its wonders on me again and I left falling in love with Cadwell all over a
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Vipers in Race Elise

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