Durand Tonearms @ LOTUS HIFI UK

[Lotus HiFi]

LOTUS are now the sole UK dealer for Joel Durands incredible range of tonearms. On demo we have the stunning Talea II with the Telos to follow next year and some other exciting new products from Joel in 2014 including his new record weight.

The Talea II is an exquisite performer and a natural partner for the low compliance Allnic Puritas moving coil. It is offered here at Lotus as an alternative to the Reed 3p.

Look out for a review of the BEAT turntable with Talea and Reed arms in the UK press very soon.

 

[Lotus HiFi]

The magnificent Talea II on the BEAT turntable:

 

[Lotus HiFi]

An exciting new Tonearm from Joel Durand

http://durand-tonearms.com/Kairos/thekairos.html

THE KAIROS™

The Kairos™ is our newest model (2014). It will be introduced for the first time at the 2014 High-End Audio show in Munich (Germany), then will be presented to the US customers at T.H.E. Show at Newport Beach (May 30-June 1, 2014). See our section News for more.

The Kairos™ offers all the adjustments needed to explore its full potential: VTA is adjusted with a convenient threaded collar which raises or lowers the whole bearing assembly; the VTF can be modified in fine increments; and, as in the case with the Talea™, the azimuth can be very easily adjusted on-the-fly, by turning a screw located under the main plate. Anti-skating is of course available, and can be defeated with a simple operation.

For the first time in our tonearms, we offer with the Kairos™ the option to use your own cable if you feel inclined to, and we introduce a unique feature to that effect: a DIN plug integrated in the base of the arm, to minimize the transmission of vibrations to the phono cable. The arm is sold without cable, but we offer separately a dedicated phono cable (DIN-RCA or DIN-XLR), developed specially for the Kairos™.

Faithful to our usual design philosophy, the Kairos™ is based on the simplest design and the greatest attention to the types of materials involved in the assembly, so as to guarantee maximum quality of reproduction. For the very first time in our products, the armwand is made of a specially developed blend of composite materials. The result of a long period of development, we are delighted to offer this technology, and are confident in the tonearm’s abilities to deliver far beyond its price point.

 

[JamPal]

I saw and heard these in Munich last year.

The build quality is absolutely superb, the system it was in sounded quite incredible too. Wonderful product, well done for bringing them in. :^

 

[Tarzan]

Oh Lordy!

 

[Lotus HiFi]

RRP will be around the 5k mark

Hope to have a demo for the summer.

Will be on show at Munich followed by the US launch at Newport beach.

There is a choice of Durand phono cable as well or use your own straight into the captive Din connector. Adjustable VTA, fine adjustble VTF, on the fly azimuth, composite armwand, finger lift, integrated DIN connector.