Thanks for the feedback guys. I've been very tempted on both the Cayin TA-30 followed up by the Sophia Baby, so it is good to hear a positive about the Cayin. But there are a lot of used options in this price range - the other integrated I am interested in the Audiomat Arpege, but that is on the high end of the (used) price range, and very difficult to find.
As far as my immediate plans for the setup, I'm leaning to the Totem Rainmakers for the speakers, or one of the Aerials (7b or 5).
The PC is a Hush mini-itx (http://www.logicsupply.com) and is dedicated entirely to music. It has a combo DVD/CD-RW drive and 160 GB Seagate HDD, and is very quiet. Currently I'm using the motherboard's digital output, and I have played with a couple of different DACs, but haven't settled completely on soundcard/DAC combination yet, still doing a bit of research on that end. I'm currently running the system through either an Adcom GFA-535II or NAD receiver (depending where it is setup at the moment).
As far as my immediate plans for the setup, I'm leaning to the Totem Rainmakers for the speakers, or one of the Aerials (7b or 5).
The PC is a Hush mini-itx (http://www.logicsupply.com) and is dedicated entirely to music. It has a combo DVD/CD-RW drive and 160 GB Seagate HDD, and is very quiet. Currently I'm using the motherboard's digital output, and I have played with a couple of different DACs, but haven't settled completely on soundcard/DAC combination yet, still doing a bit of research on that end. I'm currently running the system through either an Adcom GFA-535II or NAD receiver (depending where it is setup at the moment).
