I'm on the verge of building a new rPi player/amp/speaker setup for my office. I'm trying to decide whether to use a HAT AMP such as the Hifiberry AMP+ and an inexpensive/decent pair of small bookshelf speakers, or whether to just use a HAT DAC (e.g. Hifiberry Digi+ or DAC+) and a set of active speakers. What do you see as the tradeoffs? I don't need audiophile quality sound (it's going to replace a Boom that's going into the exercise room), but I'm not trying to do "as cheap as possible, quality be damned either. Appreciate any advice you've all got to offer. Currently running my main system via an rPi + IQAudio PI-DAC+ into my amp and am loving it.
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