I bought a trodon 2.0 when they first came out. It’s been rock solid. I also have 2 qidi max3s. They’ve been equally rock solid. My trodon is still reprap based and the wiring is proprietary so getting input shaping would take some work. It’s build into the qidis so i can push them harder. I haven’t priced the voron clones lately but when i got mine it was about $400 more than i paid for my qidis. And it was totally disassembled (other than the gantry iirc). Given that, when i got my 3rd replacement printer, it was another qidi. All these new printers are head and shoulders above the ones i started with (cr10, ender 5). I sometimes miss the tinkering the old ones required, but i don’t miss the failed prints 65 hrs into a 70 hr job for some stupid crap that was more prevalent back then.

These are preorders. They don’t ship till April i believe. They send a voucher offer a couple weeks ago. I have 1 ordered. Fingers crossed they are decent.

I think autocorrect screwed you. Qidi was changed to Audi. I haven’t used the q2 but my max 3 has been so solid that i bought a second one. Side note, i bought the kobra 3 combo when it was first introduced. It’s not terrible… i would go qidi over kobra for sure. I did get a centauri carbon for my dad a few weeks ago. He does hobby type stuff but has run it nonstop and it hasn’t missed a beat.

What’s your budget and target size? I love my Qidi max3. I just got an elegoo centari for my dad and so far it seems decent.

My 2025 ram has never done this… not saying it won’t ever but… we’ve heard the same stories about all the manufacturers.

Printables and sometimes thingyverse. Cult and yeggi to get in the right direction