Many a man has said - "don't mess with Shindo kit"

[Pronan]

Originally Posted by Jerome W

I agree that tube rolling is a non sense for Shindo : Ken Shindo spent enough time himself to select very good tubes for his amps and preamps. Tube rolling starts when original tubes are tired as we're mine in the Apetite, and you bought a used unit from an individual and not the dealer : from what I was told, Shindo will not provide new NOS tubes for those.

For power cords, I think that Shindo amps are somehow immune to them. Exotic PCs do not make them sound better. Stick with the stock cords.

Of course, Shindo amps are made to be used with high impedance / high eff speakers. All the users, me included, who use them with other speakers do not hear them as they were voiced, and do this at their own risk.

Good point Jerome. Sometimes we are voicing our kit in environments and under constraints that we understand and accept.

Personally this thread has shed light on support platforms (plywood), confirmed power cord ( but only because I have tried it) but tube rolling is something i personally want to try.

I would like to say that a willingness to experience thru experiment does not mean that people are more interested in tweaking versus listening to music, which is kind of what some of the dealers are saying on this thread. My amps are on 2-4 hrs a day for seven days a week, my 3 year old and my 7 year old turn them on and the family listens. My children talk about Albert hall recordings that sound 'large and around them' . To swap some valves for 200hrs to consider the difference is not the pursuit of tweak but to understand the value of the room (possibly a bigger issue than the kit), the relationship between the components and our ability to consider tone versus quality across a number of music types and range of musical recording on the kit that we enjoy.

This Reply is not meant to be a soapbox but I do hope Shindo is the last amp commitment i need ever make, but comparison options within the configuration are acceptable in my book.

Cheers,
Pal