Is there a better all-in-one streamer/DAC/Integrated Amp under USD 5K?


For driving a pair of small, 4 ohm 86 dB speakers (DALI Menuet SE) for a small to medium size room at low to moderate SPLs, is there a Roon Ready,  all-in-one streamer/DAC/Integrated Amp under USD 5K that is likely to perform sonically  better than the Gato DIA 250S NPM?

kirkwallace

I’ve owned 3 Hegels in my past and they sound pretty good. In 1 of my systems, I use the Auralic Polaris streaming amp with dac. This sounds better than my prior Hegel integrated amps (up to the 360, doesn’t have the power of the 360), provides many more features/hookups, and a better dac. These don’t come up often for sale and Auralic might not be in business any longer so take that into consideration.

I am extremely happy with my Simaudio Moon ACE all-in-one. It checks all the boxes.

Used hegel 590,used musical fidelity,some rotel at crutchfield.all sound good.enjoy the hunt.