To elaborate... whenever I built my hifi's I followed a rule of thumb that meant I would try and not let any end of the chain get out of sync performance-wise with the rest. That would generally mean that the source units would keep pace with the amps and speakers as my system grew over the years.

No point in my mind having a great set of pre-amps and power amps feeding nice speakers if I didn't match that with a similarly good source.

So, in my head, I would have a better source feeding those nice Brystons and Dynaudio's. Given the cost of those together I would personally seek to get the very best out of them and put more than the $99 ATV up front.

Not sure if you quoted the US RRP's of the units but of late you could get both of these from good dealers for much less than this.

No offence intended at all. Just a casual observation prompted by your earlier comment about needing a cheaper Sooloos entry point.

Rgds,
Nick