Would you consider a used Raven Nighthawk integrated to be a better move than buying, say, the Parasound A23+ new and using my m2si as a preamp? This is kind of where I'm at decision-wise.
I ask this particularly as I have (supposedly) very high sensitivity speakers and right now I'd rather have fewer watts that sound better than the other way around.
A long time ago I had a much better audio system and I know I'm missing a lot when I play recordings that I know really well. For instance, on Holly Cole's train song I know the person doing all the funny percussion effects moves around the soundstage from right to left and front to back and you can clearly hear that on a good system.
I miss that level of clarity. Everything is kind of scrunched up and fuzzy right now, sound wise. Can I fix that at least partly without spending over $2K?
Right now I am running Roon to a Chord Mojo, the m2si, and then to the Tektons which I really like. I really like the Mojo too, actually, so it's the m2si that seems to be the weak link.
I ask this particularly as I have (supposedly) very high sensitivity speakers and right now I'd rather have fewer watts that sound better than the other way around.
A long time ago I had a much better audio system and I know I'm missing a lot when I play recordings that I know really well. For instance, on Holly Cole's train song I know the person doing all the funny percussion effects moves around the soundstage from right to left and front to back and you can clearly hear that on a good system.
I miss that level of clarity. Everything is kind of scrunched up and fuzzy right now, sound wise. Can I fix that at least partly without spending over $2K?
Right now I am running Roon to a Chord Mojo, the m2si, and then to the Tektons which I really like. I really like the Mojo too, actually, so it's the m2si that seems to be the weak link.