Since Kondo (Audionote) and Shindo are covered let’s add Wavac to the discussion. The EC300b design by Nobu Shishido is arguably the greatest 300b amp ever conceived and its interstage capacitorless transformer coupling creates an immediacy that in my experience isn’t available elsewhere. Wavac’s preamps are the rarest of beasts and if you run horns its passive ATT-S is again hard to beat. As far as speakers are concerned other than those mentioned Auditorium23 and Teresonic are worth a listen.
Shindo vs the world
Shindo keeps coming up as a highly responded brand with incredible products that have great sound quality. My question only to prior owners is do you still have your shindo amp or preamp? If not why did you sell and also did you find something else you liked better? What about something cheaper that you liked more.