I have owned a lot of equipment over the years and have listened to even more.

I am not going to list it all here because a lot of it was/is fantastic and I would be doing it a disservice to pair it with the next comment. 

The Shindo equipment does not do everything sonically necessarily any better than a lot of other equipment.

What it does do, for me, is, almost every time I listen to it, shift my focus to the music. I do not mean it is more transparent, dynamic, PRATty, or any other adjective you can come up with. I mean it somehow allows my mind to more easily grok the music. Any kind of music. I don’t know why. But it does.

I have been a Shindo lover for many years and have owned a number of their pieces, including the Aurieges-L, Cortese and Corton-Charlemagne, as well as the Haut Brion and Masseto that I currently use.

I have used various speakers with them with varying degrees of success, but, for years prior to getting the Petite Latours, I used them very happily with Altec Valencias and then the Line Magnetic Audio LM755i’s.

The audio rack is made by Uwe Meyer of Tonapparate in Germany.

The record storage was custom made by a company named Urban Green in NYC.