Sometimes you can also find nice used equipment to fit the bill. Units that cost $10k and up 10 years ago can be had pretty inexpensively now, and the one-does-all never seems to do anything very well.
I'm under $1000US for all the gear I have acquired over time. The older stuff still does what I want, but tends to be a little bigger/ heavier than the new stuff. Ok, HUGE in some cases, but they are all name-brand equipment.