Shahinian and Ohm

BTW Shahinian and OHM are both omnidirectional but the drivers and design approach are very different. I think I recall Shahinian uses multiple drivers with variying orientation for a particular frequency range while OHM uses a single omnidirectional Walsh driver for most of the frequency range. A lot of the "coherency" from top to bottom with the OHMs is inherent in the single Walsh driver design approach.

Diebenkorn,

I have a pair of 100 S3's that are still relatively new. They are still far from broken in but sound very sweet as they are.

I'm driving them with a Unison Unico 80 Watt/Channel hybrid integrated amp (tubes in the preamp section, solid state in the power section).

My listening room is relatively small, around 12 x 16 with an 8 foot ceiling. The 100's in this room will go far louder than I can tolerate for normal listening with the volume knob on the Unico nowhere near 50%. And bass is plentiful.

Of course, with no other amps to compare it too, I can't tell you how the sound might improve with more watts and/or current to throw at them, but for what it's worth, John at Ohm told me before I ordered the that 80 watts/channel would do just fine. Consider giving him a call, he's very pleasant and helpful.

I've had 100 S3s for about 5 months now, in a 12x15x7.5 room. I'm perfectly satisfied driving them with a Cayin TA-30, which is rated as 35wpc of tube power. When I get the chance to blast them I can't go past noon on the volume control.