I’m capturing my initial impressions of the DeVore Fidelity, Orangutan O/96, 10 Ωhm, 96db speakers. These speakers are on loan from our own @dB_Cooper whom I would like to congratulate on a most awesome Birthday purchase 
If I live long enough to see golden years, I hope to be able to splurge wildly like this too 
TLDR: These speakers play big, dig deep down into the mid 30’s (possibly a bit lower depending on your room’s acoustic capabilities), they are absolute midrange Queens that reveal tonal colors well and simply have a beautiful rich sound character. The most over used saying ever in this hobby, “These are incredibly MUSICAL speakers”.
A few more details; I’ve got the speakers set up in my main listening room which is 25 ft wide, 18ft tall and open behind and above me to the rest of the house which provides substantial cubic feet of airspace. The speakers are pulled 6ft forward of the wall behind them, they are 7ft apart at their centers and about 8ft from each side wall. My head sits right at 7’.5” in their centers and they are slightly toed just to the outside of my shoulders. I would consider this sitting fairly close in a dedicated space.
The Orangutan O/96 use a wide baffle, rear ported box design with John Devore’s semi custom soft dome horn guided tweeter and semi custom 10” woofer w/ phase plug design. At 18” wide the only speakers in my home that are wider are my K-horns @31.5” 
yep, the 18” box is a wide body and takes advantage of the sound cohesion this type of design is known to provide. The beautifully created horn for the tweeter is very cool 
The speaker binding posts are mounted to the bottom of the box and he uses the excellent Cardas all copper model. The legs are actually separate stands made of hardwood which were purpose built and designed to act as isolation for the speakers from the floor.
For some reason I personally don’t understand, I have read some reviews comparing these to single driver crossover less designs and that’s simply not fair to the Orangutan or a proper comparison. This speaker is a 2 way, ported box design that has a custom horn loaded tweeter designed to be high sensitivity and an easy to drive 10Ωhm load that is supposedly fairly consistent and specifically created to take advantage of low power tube amplifiers and the general sound character they provide. Personally I would think it’s more appropriate to compare these to Joseph Crowe, Avantguard, Volti, JBL, Altec Lansing, AudioNote etc. 2 way horn designs. 
None of which that I happen to own currently but maybe someday 
I have read in at least one review that the bass output of the O/96 can be varied via their room position, which is also room dependent . (I plan on trying this in my own space.)
Thus far using my Vinny Rossi L2i-SE, Alan Eaton 45 monoblocks, First Watt Sit 3, and Line Magnetic, LM 216ia I have had consistent results with some fine nuances (which is what the hobby is all about) in the output and sound character of these gorgeous and beautifully designed speakers 
In all honesty I love what these do and I’m so very thankful for the opportunity to experience them for a few weeks in my home!
