Where to go from here?

All very helpful. Im learning a lot in short time. Thank you jjss49 for getting my feet grounded. Tambuqui is a ton of money for just one piece of the puzzle. I probably owe mlsstl a beer, since his advice will keep me from frying my audio system. If the amps and preamps are just as important as the dac then I will listen to ggoofyfoot and visit some local hifi shops. I am also a short drive from mcintosh factory. That seems to be a love hate company on the forums. Oddiofyl may be right. A great integrated with ht bypass may be the best way to start. Many quality integrateds have decent dacs to get started and then down the road i can add a better streamer or dac via balanced analog in. Pmc isnt too well known in states. Very popular in canada. Other owners say they need lots of power due to the transmission line. Others told me that a good front end is a must because they are so revealing. They will never have the depth of my friends maggies that are positioned 6 ft from the wall. Depth of soundstage is a compromise Im ok with. The speakers have so much of the other traits that allow me to connect with the music.

I have a friend with an older Denon AVR hooked up to an even older pair of speakers the brand of which I cannot remember.

I am always surprised at how good that Denon sounds playing CDs via a carousel CD player.  I have always liked Denon products.

Krell K300i intergrated amp with built in dac and streaming capabilities if you go with the digital package, plus made in the USA. 

That KRELL K-300i is an awesome integrated. The internal DAC is good, and if you desire can upgrade later to an external DAC. You can get close to Mola Mola Tamabqui sound for much, much less. Spending a lot of DAC helps the audio industry and the economy keep moving. However, your ears you likely will be OK with something in the $1500-$3000 range (my ears are). 

A super neutral $719 Topping D90LE mates well with the warm K-300i. In my opinion, the Toppng D90SE (or LE), Benchmark DAC3B, Musetec 005 are better than the internal DAC. The internal DAC is not bad, just that the others that are good matches for the K-300i.

I still always recommend the internal DAC in the K-300i because it is good enough and it has HDMI which is great on that unit. The ROON READY on the K-300i is the very best I have ever used. It has volume adjustment from the ROON Client app. I do not know of any other unit that can do that.

@jjss49

Good catch, I incorrectly assumed that the speaker were either bookshelf or floorstanders.

@davekuyt11
Speaker placement, a trial and error exercise, is extremely important in high end audio and necessary to get the great 3D soundstage. Room treatments usually happen after placement of speakers to tame unwanted reflections and bass energy. In high end audio, everything in the audio chain matters. The lack of ability for optimal speaker placement is a glaring weak chain link.

Are you assembling an analog and/or a digital system?