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Hi thanks for your comment. I did mention M22 indeed but now, because of your comment, I understand the differences. It's all clear now. Thanks guys!

Hi guys, My current audio setup is as follows: DALI Rubicon 6 speakers connected to a Onkyo TX-SR606 receiver. I wanted to replace my current receiver and today it just broke. It didn't startup anymore. So I am looking for a new stereo Amplifier. A while ago I listened to the NAD C388 and I loved it linked to my pair of speakers. However today my local distributor sells a NAD M22 (probably because of the v2 upgrade) and it was a demo unit. It cost a bit over 400€ more than the C388. Normal price of the M22 is almost 3500€, now they sell the unit for 1999€. It looks brand new and you get 5 years of warranty. Unfortunately I didn't had the change yet to hear the difference between the M22 and the C388. So my question to you is: what would you do? Buy the C388 which is already a huge step up for me compared to my Onkyo. Buy the M22 which is a bit stretched for me at the moment. But if it is worth it, I am willing to invest. I won't also purchase the M12. Is the M22 (without the M12) that much better? And will I be able to hear it on the Rubicon's? I already liked their sound on the Onkyo's Any other specs or features missing on one of the other unit? I am not sure if the M22 has a headphone jack. edit Well reading through the specs brought me already to the following: I didn't notice a lot of inputs on the M22. Most probably as it is expected to be used with the M12. Obviously the C388 does have all what you expect. Sorry guys, but I am a newbee to this matter. As I am using an external bluesound Node 2 could I connect this to the M22?

I have purchased these Dali Opticon 6 loudspeakers a bit more than a month ago and they sound breathtaking. However I have noticed that I cannot hear any sound coming out of the top part of the hybrid tweeter (the ribbon). I do hear sound from the soft dome tweeter. According to the specifications from Dali from their website about the ribbon tweeter: So I thought it might be because I just don't play music in these high ranges. Or it might be because my crappy receiver; an Onkyo TX-SR606 which doesn't operate at 4 Ohm. I know this the next investment I need to make. When I hear very close separating the soft dome and the ribbon tweeter with my hands than these ribbons are completely silent. Do you experience the same thing? How can I test this using a test file operating at higher frequencies? Any suggestions are welcome, also a bit of technical background for me to understand.

Thanks for that. I have also made the connections between RCA to the Onkyo and yes I do notice a difference. The internal Node 2 DAC sounds a bit warmer and opener. Tnx for your help. To provide you guys a bit of an update about my Node 2 experience. I have it for over a week now and playing both Spotify and 24bit music stored on my NAS through a Powerline adapter. Never had any hickup whatsoever. It just plays as it should. Really robust. So I am a happy guy.

Hi Melvin, just to be absolutely sure I'll describe my situation. At the moment I have my Node 2 connected via Toslink to an old Onkyo Receiver which is connected to a pair of Dali Opticons. In the future I will replace the Onkyo with a amplifier with integrated DAC. However at the moment it is what it is. In this situation what is the best way to connect the Node 2 to the receiver: Via Toslink (No DAC of Node 2 used) through RCA (DAC of Node 2 used, and hopefully improve sound). Or didn't I understand your reply and is the DAC inside the Node 2 always used? How to by-pass to connect to a better DAC?

Hey guys, am I allowed to ask a real noob question? I noticed the comments about the excellent onboard DAC of the Node 2, but does this also work on the TOSLINK connection? I would guess that this is a pure digital connection passing it over to the DAC of the receiver. Or not? If so, to be able to listen to the Node 2 DAC would I'll need to use the Analog RCA connections?

Please consider the issue as closed. I just received feedback from Bluesound support. They asked me to reset the unit to factory settings just in case. And it did the trick. A happy customer I am.

My Node 2 arrived yesterday and according to the tracking website my new loudspeakers DALI Opticon 6 will arrive today. Whoohoo. Yesterday evening I already did some tests with a headphone connected to the connector on the Node 2. It worked. Upfront I linked it to my Wifi network and it started updating it's firmware. After that I started adding Spotify, my local RADIO stations and my network drive with FLAC files. A Breeze. As I played around with it I also found some things I didn't like: lozing my configuration from time to time and I've opened a case for that. So what happened: When the device looses it LAN or Wifi connection it put's itself in WIFI hub mode. So you can configure it. However this implicates that it looses it's config completely. It does this every time. It could happen now and then that it'll lose it's wifi or LAN connection and I don't want to reconfigure everything after it happens. I've opened a case for it. Also when you push the pauze/play button for 5 seconds the device will put itself into vacation mode.. consuming even less power. When bringing it back with a short push.... gues what... again green lights.. WIFI HUB mode and all configs are lost. Do you have seen similar things? I have logged a support ticket and will also check for this on their forums.

Thanks for your support and advise. One second question: The room is one big rectangular room of 6 by 7,5 meters. As the listening positions will vary, due to placement of dining table and tv setup I am in favor of placing the loudspeakers in such a way that the dining room is in a perfect center of it. Or would it be better to simply place one speaker in the left corner and one in the right?

Hi all, I am about the invest some money into a new audio setup for my recently bought house. After listening to several brands and components I how decided to go for the Dali Rubicon series which will be feeded by Marantz PM8005 and NA6005. Not purchased yet. For this I would like to have some thoughts from you guys as the possible speaker setup is somewhat unconventional or even problematic. The old owner has installed the necessary speaker wires through the walls in our new 45 m2 living room. When standing exactly in the middle of this room one cable is in the front wall on the right side where the other cable is on the back wall on the left side. I can imagine this is not very good for overall sound quality or stereo. It would be better of both the cables would be installed in the same wall (left and right) which isn't the case. The distance between the loudspeakers in the opposite walls would be a 6 to 7 meters (20 foot). For the on wall loudspeakers I was thinking to purchase the Dali Rubicon LCR. They are a good fit but I have my doubts on the current setup and if they can fill the size of the room.