Price: $3999

Website: www.anthemav.com

Diego said: What Anthem has created is extraordinary for the price -- a full-featured, transparent-sounding preamplifier-DAC with all the analog and digital inputs and outputs most users could ever need (save for HDMI and a headphone jack), and exceptional input-assignment flexibility.

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The gist: Anthem Room Correction is the cherry on top.