Bookself speakers for shindo amps

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Hello,

Every once in a while I get the itch to purchase a bookshelf speaker that would be an alternate to my floor standers. (Devore O96's) The speakers would be driven by my Haut Brion. Seems to be a limited selection of efficient bookshelf speakers. Do any of you have any experience with shindo amps and Devore 3XL, Proac tab 10 or anniversary, Ref 3a? Any others I should consider?

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Ref3a always seemed highly regarded, but the de capo are still only 8ohm. Never heard the Devore. Doubt it would work. Just a guess. Audio Note? Omegas?


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I would recommend the Omega bookshelf speakers with Shindo amp you have.


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The 3xl's would work if you are not really cranking the volume.

You could look at the Falcon LS3/5a's.....they should work well.

The Omega's mentioned above would likely be nice as well.
 
The Omegas mentioned above are not bookshelf speakers and are 6-8 ohms. You can use your Shindo amp with whatever speakers you want, I guess, but the reality is that they shine with very few.


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Interesting. My gm70 had an 8ohm tap


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Most of Shindo amps are 8 ohms. ( CC80 , CV 391 , Haut Brion , Dyquem and Cortese ) As far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.


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Anyway to OP I had a Devore 3XL with Shindo. I wasn't happy with sounds. It was bit too thin.


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Paul said:
Most of Shindo amps are 8 ohms. ( CC80 , CV 391 , Haut Brion , Dyquem and Cortese ) As far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.


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Don't know. What I can say for certain is that the Shindo reps in the US do not rec 8ohm speakers. From my experience Devore Nines and Tannoy speakers did not work with various Shindo amps, incl my 8ohm GM70 in the Tannoy.


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Funny, This is what makes our hobby funny and interesting. With my experience, the Shindo amp was top 3 in my book with Tannoy speakers and the DeVore O/96 didn't even come close.

So Mr. Ken made his amp compatible for 8 ohms speakers but Shindo reps in the US do not recommend them. Hmmmm
 
Paul said:
Most of Shindo amps are 8 ohms. ( CC80 , CV 391 , Haut Brion , Dyquem and Cortese ) As far as I know. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Actually, most have 16ohm Lundahl tformers. And I'm positive the HB does.

The Corton-Charlemagnes I believe use 8 ohm Hammond transformers.
 
kev313 said:
Don't know. What I can say for certain is that the Shindo reps in the US do not rec 8ohm speakers. From my experience Devore Nines and Tannoy speakers did not work with various Shindo amps, incl my 8ohm GM70 in the Tannoy.
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This is true - my Devore/Shindo dealer won't recommend a Shindo amp for my Gibbon Xs, although concedes that the one that just might work (and discontinued I believe) is the CCQ
 
Paul said:
Funny, This is what makes our hobby funny and interesting. With my experience, the Shindo amp was top 3 in my book with Tannoy speakers and the DeVore O/96 didn't even come close.

So Mr. Ken made his amp compatible for 8 ohms speakers but Shindo reps in the US do not recommend them. Hmmmm
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Now you see what you did there is you made the assumption that 1.) the amps all work at 8ohms / have 8 ohm taps and 2.) Shindo designed them to be used that way.

We have no proof of that.

Then you implied that the reps had some hidden agenda at play by not recommending 8ohm speakers.

No evidence of that.

In fact, these are passionate guys who want nothing more than for people to experience Shindo at its best. They'd rather you buy a used altec than a new pair of the wrong speakers to use with Shindo. Theirs included. Trust me when I say the approach has likely cost them more than it made them.


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It's ok Kev. I don't care less about this Shindo matching stuff anyway and I clearly mention that what amps was using the 8 ohm taps coz I owned few amps myself.

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Maybe they recommend the 8ohm amps for 8ohm speakers. Don't really know for sure. They'd be the guys to ask.


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