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I have a treated dedicated room with pmc ci140 speakers. So my room and speakers are done. Now i need to get the front end up to par. The pmc speakers are being fed by a denon 3700h to monolith amplifier.  I rather not get hung up on which brand is best but what makes a bigger positive improvement? I can purchade a reference dac with volume like a weiss 501 or tambaqui, or i could buy a quality integrated like a mcintosh ma9500 or hegel 590. If i get the weiss or tambuqui it will be awhile until my wallet cools off, so i would keep the monolith amp for a few years. If i get a quality integrated it would be a few yrs until i got a reference seperate dac. Sooooo......what the heck makes sense and which would make the biggest improvement?  Thanks

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video. I'm currently grooving to a Topping M50 into a E50 (both on LPS), balanced into a PA 5. All for ~ $750. If you have insufficient files to play substitute a Ras Pi streamer instead. I stick with the M50 because ComCrap is often lights out around here (twice yesterday.) Over 5 streamers.

Night and daylight compared to the AVR I still use for video and surround.

I'm usually inspired enough by it to forget turning on the 300 wpc into 6ft ESLs that sit next to it.

Unless you really want to stick $14,000 on a shelf, then go for it

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