I am looking for a dac amp for hd 58x and rb 42s i dont care if it is 1, 2 or 3 units the best thing i have found so far is the smsl ad18 but im sure there are better solutions for this budget.
So for that price, I would go with the fiio k5 pro and the topping pa3. The k5 pro is a great dac and amp for the price with plenty of power and good sound quality. It also has a dac line out which you can run to the topping pa3, which would have plenty of power for the rb42, and is also very clean and good sounding for the price
Is the dac in the k5 pro good enough that if i upgrade amps later i wont need another dac
I personally think that if you are at the point to upgrade amps, just selling the k5 pro outright would be the better idea. If you wanted something that was more upgradable down the line, while costing more, getting a topping d10 + a jds labs atom or monolith liquid spark + the pa3 would be up your alley, but it would be 50 bucks above your budget
Also with that setup you would want to get an rca splitter for the dac which is like under 10 bucks
Is there a way to use a remote with the topping pa3 if i wantrd to use it for tv audio
If you wanted a solution like that, the topping dx3 pro and the topping pa3 would be for you. It should allow you to control the volume of the pre out mode on the dx3 pro so you would max out your pa3 and use the dx3 pro to control it’s volume with it’s remote