Mytek Brooklyn's are the right size, but not $1k.
If you didn't want balanced, the Toppings are the darlings of ASR, include built in Blutooth
If you didn't want balanced, the Toppings are the darlings of ASR, include built in Blutooth
PS Audio NuWave DAC. It's a half size component and it does full 24/192 on coax, toslink and USB. No display so not missing much by it being hidden. However a front button is how you select the different inputs so you might still need to be able to access it. Fully balanced XLR outputs as well as single ended RCA outputs. Available used for $500 or less. I paid $400 for mine. |
https://apos.audio/ Topping D90 for about $700 or something cheaper the SMSL-SU 8 for about $250 they both have balanced out. |
Of course moving on up you have the Ayre QB-9 but that is USB only.I'm probably going to use a network player compatible with Roon, something like a Bluesound Node 2i, so optical or coax. If there's a network player with balanced line out and a decent built-in DAC I'd consider something like that as well. |
Streamer, pretty decent dac the AKM4490, Balanced out, it also has Dirac room correction if that's something you're interested in but not sure you could hang this on a wall. It runs $1200 https://www.minidsp.com/products/streaming-hd-series/shd |