Imo, with that limited of budget, I would consider an alternative. I would consider reallocating the funds toward primarily speakers and pre/amp or integrated. Source temporarily could be phone/laptop for digital, and if it is your pleasure, an inexpensive analog setup.
There is no demand, rule of system building in which one has to balance the cost of elements of the system. If you plan on upgrading over time, buying everything budget ensures you will have to sooner upgrade everything, and possibly get arguably poorer sound in the meantime.
Just remember this; the spectrum of sound quality is enormous, much greater than most audiophiles know. You can have many years of upgrading if that is the goal. There is no performance ceiling, not practically. The fact is that you can select any number of products and you will be at the starting line of what you could determine to be a marathon experience over a lifetime. No one here knows the outcome of the recommendations they are making. It's all guesswork. But, the system built will be beginner level; nice, thrilling for you!
The only way to learn of sound quality and better over time is to keep building rigs (or plow time/money into the recordings/media, but that is tempered by a hard limit on the system's quality).
There is no demand, rule of system building in which one has to balance the cost of elements of the system. If you plan on upgrading over time, buying everything budget ensures you will have to sooner upgrade everything, and possibly get arguably poorer sound in the meantime.
Just remember this; the spectrum of sound quality is enormous, much greater than most audiophiles know. You can have many years of upgrading if that is the goal. There is no performance ceiling, not practically. The fact is that you can select any number of products and you will be at the starting line of what you could determine to be a marathon experience over a lifetime. No one here knows the outcome of the recommendations they are making. It's all guesswork. But, the system built will be beginner level; nice, thrilling for you!
The only way to learn of sound quality and better over time is to keep building rigs (or plow time/money into the recordings/media, but that is tempered by a hard limit on the system's quality).