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Easily sorted if you want a pair in that colour.

They come as standard in natural oak, black oak or walnut veneer, or a satin white paint finish. They can also be custom finished in pretty much any veneer species or paint colour that takes your fancy.

Thanks Mac. None of the Innuos servers have built-in DACs, so the Vault 2 is a rather different proposition. @ChemMan The Vault 2 sounds exactly like the Node 2, but with built-in CD ripping and music storage. The Node 2 and Vault 2 are certainly hifi and will happily keep up with your A39...

I have no idea what the bill of materials cost is for a Devialet 400, but I do know that it is likely a tiny fraction of the cost of bringing the product to market. Likewise with every other commercially produced audio component throughout history.

And congratulations to Naim.

Perhaps you could define what you mean by each of the category labels? It has been my experience that some of these terms mean different things to different people. https://www.axiomaudio.com/blog/defining_speaker_sound/

I mentioned AirPlay because you can use it to integrate Hegel products with Roon. It works great too. The only issue is that AirPlay is limited to 44.1kHz, but Roon will do a great job of downsampling your HD content before sending it on to the Röst. The only reference to MQA on Hegel's Röst...

Have you tried the AirPlay integration?

Try a different dealer. There are other, less costly options which would fit nicely into your system.

Does that mean that one speaker is further away from you than the other? As a rule of thumb, you want to have both speakers the same distance from your listening position and the same distance from the front and side walls. Otherwise you can end up with one channel being delayed relative to the...

1. Definitely not. Bright sun means harsh shadows. Better to photograph kit on a bright but overcast day. 2. Agreed. 3. Agreed. 4. Part of the daily routine here at Strictly Manor. 5. Yeah man.

Never sit in the middle of the room? [joke]

Perhaps, but you seem to have understood it well enough. Hopefully other people will too.

You might be able to pick up a second hand Auralic Aries Mini or Bluesound Node 2 for that sort of money.

That line "a bit perfect file is all the DAC needs" is either a gross over-simplification or just plain wrong. DACs do not deal with files. DACs deal with streams of bits, either PCM or DSD. Streamers like the Neo MiND or a suitably configured Raspberry Pi take files and turn them into streams...