Hi everyone!

I already have a nice audio setup for my home office and my home theater, but I find myself carrying my big Soundcore Rave 3 speaker around for when I want loud music in a particular room (kitchen, garage, bedroom, etc.).

I don't know it this particular speaker is considered "good", but I personally like that it can easily fill up the room and has pretty good bass (listening to pretty much all kinds of music, but mainly electronic).

I would like to have this sound in 3-4+ additional rooms and am looking at options.

I thought about Sonos, but I find their speaker a bit on the expensive side for what they do.

Also, having a simple Bluetooth input available would be great for when I have guests over and they can just pair and be done with it.

I am comfortable with making the multi-room bit (probably with SBCs, amps and some Linux services) but would love to hear if anyone has found a good solution/setup for this use-case.

Budget-wise, I would like to stay well below 2k CAD ( 1250 EUR ?) but I'm open to any suggestion as I can see this as home improvement. I know at this price I could buy a bunch more of Rave3, but there would not be any multi-room features and I think it would look weird to have those speakers around...

Thanks!

 

Hi everyone!

Today I went on a walk in a park and had a lot of fun trying to find interesting angles and subjects to snap a pic with my phone. I really loved walking around "with the eye of a photographer" and wanted to hear your recommendations on what would be a good first buy geared towards my interests. While the pictures were satisfactory from my OnePlus 12, I am aware that they would never rival the quality of bigger sensors/lenses.

I owned one DSLR back in the days but never got the interest of playing in the manual and semi-manual modes.

My ideal camera would be one relatively simple to operate but offering good specs that would make computer touch-ups (cropping, colours, balance, etc) as I think that my interest will be on detecting good capture opportunities more than finding optimal camera settings.

My guess is an entry level DSLR/mirrorless would be interesting to explore different lenses?

The products will probably be computer wallpapers (4k HDR screens) and I would love to prioritize the crispiness/resolution.

As I don't plan to do more than play with it from time to time, I am looking in the sub 1.5k $ area (new or used)

TL;DR: Looking for a worthwhile step-up from a cellphone to capture crisp wallpapers of nature/sceneries. +-1500$ new/used.

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