I purchased my Haut Brion (original version) without hearing it and was draw to its looks. I always felt it was one of the most beautiful designs in the shindo lineup. It looks very balanced with the plasitic faceplate in the middle, tubes behind. The 300B amp is also visually amazing with that glorious tube in full view.

I see from the Shindo site that the Lafite is 8 ohm, 30W max, 20cm field coil, 18kg weight. Wow that is one light design. The field coil driver appears to be set back into the cabinet, I wonder how this effects the width of the sound? Does the design limit the soundstage width in anyway?

There is a photo of the insides of the old version on 6moons which shows only 2 input tubes

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/s...rtese_open.jpg

Plink: I'd also love to see a pic of the new Haut Brion..

Very nice.. Thanks for the photos Plink :thumbsup:

hmm, I beg to differ, I think the old one version with the window was much better looking.

I agree I like the window better.

Hey, where did Plink and the Pic's go?

hmm!

Odd - very odd. Anyone capture the photos. Who asked for them to be removed?

very strange...

Dave

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