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Putting together first stereo....

I'm a total newbie to home audio, so please excuse the ignorance. So, I spent the last two months auditioning different floor standing speakers and ended up really liking the Vienna Acoustic Beethoven Grands. In the demo room, they were being powered by McIntosh 302s.

I plan on connecting it to a Sonos Connect. My plan was to try to find th McIntosh TC47, since it has a DAC built in, and then maybe going with an older McIntosh amp, maybe a MC7200 to save a little cash. Any comments, suggestions, or thoughts would be helpful.

TIA
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lewinskih01
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Along the lines of what has been said, it is a good idea to focus on speakers first and amp (or integrated) next. Don't worry about the source (Sonos, cheap DVD player, etc) yet. My suggestion is to avoid getting units with built-in DAC. DAC technology has been evolving super fast and it's likely to continue like that. Five years ago we couldn't dream of performance like that delivered for $1k today.

Good speakers and a good integrated amp that match well is indeed a good plan to get going.

enjoy!
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