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I'm not so sure the DAC is the be all and end all in sound quality. Speaker positioning and the amp are way bigger arbiters, likewise your computer's audio settings, than the DAC. I don't use my laptop much for music today, prefer either LP, CD or via the streamer, but from recall, while it...

Ah! I think I was on a scroll-tastic morning....!

KRK Rokits or Tannoy Reveals. Both have smaller models that come in within your budget (and are priced as pairs which actives often aren't). You'll maybe need an adapter, as both I think are either XLR or TRS only, but you can get line cables terminated with XLR at one end and RCA at the other...

I wouldn't waste my time with AI for hifi. Not without telling it to stick to authoritative sources. And that's as someone who's been involved in AI projects.

Marantz PM80-II amp, Mission 751 speakers. Both hail from the 1990s.

Does it have to be a cassette player? Maybe a decent low cost DAP to load some music onto?

1. Still not down to an understanding of electronics. Rather BT or something in your house, caused by something of yours. And you said it, "systems" not necessarily what you think it might be. 2. You understand that there's more than one design ethos in designing audio gear. So yeah, we...

As for me, I use QED XT - bought 3m pre-terminated which saved me a job. Came in at about £40. Very happy with them.

Any number of things could be causing that. And yes electronics is nailed down. As seems to be the popular cliché of the day, two seemingly opposing things can be true at once. In your case, your (I'm assuming) WiFi is dropping out thanks to an unresolved issue. That doesn't mean that we don't...

Mission 751s with QED XT. Think they were about £40 for a 3m pair (discounted stock, so you'd pay more for those normally). They were pre-terminated which saved me a job.

Quite happy with this setup below thanks (which is punching way above it's weight) ...

Great to try swapping things around but the 780SE isn't the bassiest and while it'll likely have Mission's trait of excellent detail and imaging, if you just want more thump - and can't tweak speaker positioning much, which you should try before anything else if you can - then this would be the...

Damping was all set set but IMO, if you're sitting there giving it the "non standard" shtick when these things are modded all the time, then I'm not quite buying that, regardless of your suspicions. The guy that did the work did plenty of these and the work is good. At the time I lived in an...

I didn't do any swapping or modding. It's a sprung sub-chassis of the bouncy kind and I'm hardly the first to report similar. Plenty of other users have invested in wall shelving to get round the problem.

I've zero issues with stuff being made in China. As long as the terms of manufacture and quality control requirements are set out in the contract of work, then I'm good with that. As it happens, I have a "Made in Germany" TD160 in a modded plinth with Rega arm. which is great deck until you...