Is it Time To Allocate More Money To Speakers on a Digital set up?

[mep]

Sure, Mark, these are basics, but are not what I meant. There are amps perfectly capable of driving my speakers but with lesser signal quality. A $ 700 Schiit Vidar amp suffices, and it's astonishingly good too.

By the way, my speakers are 92 dB sensitive two-way monitors and driven by an amp that puts out 100 W into 8 Ohms, my speakers' impedance (130 W into 4 Ohms). Total overkill, as I like it.

I never brought up how much money you should spend on an amp, just that you match the amp to the speaker load that you plan on using it with.

 

[bluegrassphile]

I am not sure how the dollar ratios come out but:
-Get the best speakers that you like and will work in your room.
-Next spend your money on the amp(s) that will get the most out of your speakers.
-Allocate your source funds based on your preference for digital or analog. Possibly depending on the one you will use the most.
-Tweak away with cables etc that get you closer to what you want to hear our of your system.

That's exactly the way I did it.