Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise?

Happy Turkey Day to one and all!

I just googled "great HiFi system for $5K" and there's a lot of sites and threads that came up which should keep you busy for the holidays. 

All the best,
Nonoise

Seems to me you want amp/pre/radio/cd/tt/speakers.  And you want a system that (1) sounds good. (2) is of interest (in some way) to audiophiles.  Now lots of us have systems under 5K that sound fantastic.  But to get what you want on point 2, you're pressing it here:  every component you get means a bit less you can spend on another one, and there will be compromises throughout that system (which will become apparent as/if you upgrade).  Why not look for a reconditioned tube receiver, which will only set you back say 1-1.5K.  Then you don't have to worry about which phono-pre-amp and DAC converter you need or that your $300 interconnects mean you have to downgrade the speakers you want, or go through the whole 'which should I spend on? pre- or power-amp).  You'll have plenty left over to buy the best tt, speakers, and cd-player you want.  And the whole set up will look cool as hell.  (You'll have plenty of power--my amps run from 8-20W and they fill rooms  bigger than that).  And I've found they sound just fine either with modern speakers or old KLH ones.

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A tiny nuprime sta9 Will drive the speakers wonderfully well

Lintons speakers           1500
Preamp/dac/streamer 1500
Table.                              1145

                                   Amp795


In a word extraordinary performance full streaming and room correction to help optomize the system to the room


Unbeatable for the price andyou can later add another nuprime amp and run them as mono blocks for improved sound

So in one system you have a dac and streamer room corection an upgrade path to mono amps

And a great looking set of speakers that are very apartament friendly


Dave and troy
Audio intellect nj

Rega nuprime nad dealers

Freya plus and 2 Aegirs or 1bVidar with a Bifrost

Also, take a look at Yamaha integrateds. They include phono stage and DAC and can be found in the used market.