Plus 3. I think the D18s are very well-suited to solid state class A amps and Sugden are some of the best.
I didn't love my Pathos Logos with the D18s. I found that the combination sounded best at low listening levels with acoustic music, although certainly it could play loudly if I had a party with no strain at all. But the midrange magic disappeared when the woofer is asked to do much bass. In general I found the sound of both the Pathos and the ProAcs to be a bit on the soft side and so they didn't match well. The great strength of the ProAcs is a very natural midrange. The weakness is the smile-shaped frequency profile: the speaker is tuned to boost the highs and the lows, which unfortunately need boosting, particularly the lows. So you get a very boxy-sounding bass at high volume.
These speakers can be wonderful in different ways with different amps. I think it would be helpful to your search if you could make a choice between tube, solid state class A, and traditional class A/B amplification (if you could compare Unison, Sugden, and Bryston, for example). If you could establish a type preference, it would make your search easier, since this info, plus your budget and reviews, could get you down to 2-3 choices.
But you can hardly go wrong with Sugden + ProAc, I would think. But depending on how much rock and hip-hop you listen to, a class A/B amp might suit you better. McIntosh, Bryston, Naim, Roksan, etc. You need to find out before you buy anything.
As for the DAC, at your budget the M-DAC is probably the best. I recommend the Benchmark DAC1. It stands practically alone on the price/performance curve and is much better (much, much better) than the likes of the M-DAC. If you could somehow buy it in the US and bring it back, it's almost at your budget - but as they are bulletproof, and as they have just released a new version (the DAC2), you could probably get it used for your budget with little trouble. If you are going to spend more than a few hundred on a DAC (but less than several thousand), there is no other choice.
One other note to the OP: there are lots of people on this forum willing to help. There is no need to be pushy, rude, and impatient. Many of us can only viusit a few times per week, and the forum topics jump around. There is no way to track conversations on the forum. The only way people see your post is by stumbling across it.
If you want to get a diversity of good responses, you need to wait a day or two for people to see your question and answer it.
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