TITLE: $E_n$-space and n-connected pointed space
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: Is it true that the homotopy category of group-like $E_n$-spaces is equivalent to the homotopy category of pointed $n$-connected spaces ? If it is true, what should be the statement  when $"n\rightarrow \infty"$ ?
By $n$-connected space $X$, I mean that $\pi_{i}X=0$ for $0\leq i\leq n-1$. 
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Notions: The $\infty$-category of group-like $E_n$-spaces is denoted by $\mathbf{G}_{n}$ 
The category of pointed $n$-connected spaces is denoted by $\mathbf{Top}_{n}$.
As Peter May and Ring Spectra noticed,  $$Bar^{n}:\mathbf{G}_{n}\longrightarrow \mathbf{Top}_{n}:\Omega^{n}$$
is an $\infty$-equivalence. It seems very natural that the homotpy limit 
$$ holim(\dots \rightarrow \mathbf{G}_{n+1}\rightarrow \mathbf{G}_{n}\rightarrow\dots \mathbf{G}_{1})$$
is the $\infty$-category of group-like $E_{\infty}$-spaces i.e. connective spectra. 
My question is the following:
How can we see that 
$$ holim(\dots \rightarrow \mathbf{Top}_{n+1}\rightarrow \mathbf{Top}_{n}\rightarrow\dots \mathbf{Top}_{1})$$ is naturally equivalent to the $\infty$-category of connective spectra without using $E_{n}-spaces$? 
PS: As Peter May noticed there is a problem with the my definition  of $n$-connectivity. But I think the idea is clear.

REPLY [4 votes]: Denis and ``Ring Spectra'', thanks for the references.  I did not treat
non-connected spaces in "The geometry of iterated loop spaces", which is why
you couldn't find that there. It should have been treated in the immediate sequel 
"$E_{\infty}$ spaces, group completions, and permutative categories",
but that perversely and for no good mathematical reason restricts to the
case $n=\infty$.  The proof works the same way in general.  Max, $n$-connected
means $\pi_i = 0$ for $i\leq n$ (you can look it up on Wikipedia if you do not 
believe me; this is implicit in Ring Spectra's answer).   
Briefly, the essential point is to start with an $E_n$-space $X$ and construct
from it an $n-1$-connected space $Y_n(X)$ and a natural map $X\longrightarrow \Omega^n Y_n(X)$ 
that  is a weak equivalence if $X$ is connected and a group completion in general,
hence a weak equivalence if $\pi_0(X)$ is a group.  Conversely, if $Y$ is an
$n-1$-connected space, then of course $X=\Omega^n Y$ is a grouplike $E_n$-space.
With the construction of Geo, $Y_n(X) = B(\Sigma^n, C_n, X)$ where $C_n$ is the monad
associated to an $E_n$-operad.  The group completion property for $n\geq 2$ follows
from the group completion property for the natural map 
$\alpha_n\colon C_nX \longrightarrow \Omega^n \Sigma^n X$ (which I didn't 
yet know how to prove when I wrote Geo, but did thanks to work of Fred Cohen when I wrote the cited sequel).
The case $n=1 is classical and special.