My solution, which puts sound quality above everything else,
is to use a Roon Nucleus to feed an Ayre Codex. I'm quite confident nothing else will come close under $3k. I connect my tv to the optical input, the Nucleus to usb. TV sounds radically better than when I had an AV system, and the only way to get better 2 channel SQ is with an Ayre EX-8, QX Twenty, or DCS Bartok, Rossini, Vivaldi.
is to use a Roon Nucleus to feed an Ayre Codex. I'm quite confident nothing else will come close under $3k. I connect my tv to the optical input, the Nucleus to usb. TV sounds radically better than when I had an AV system, and the only way to get better 2 channel SQ is with an Ayre EX-8, QX Twenty, or DCS Bartok, Rossini, Vivaldi.