kevb
Head-Fier
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I didn't care for the DAC 9 all that much. It was just "ok" but priced as if it should have been really good. The nice appearance was about the only thing it had going for it - thankfully that carries over (more or less) to the NuPrime model. I thought the DAC100 and DAC80 were improvements over the DAC 9 in most every respect, despite being of a theoretically lower class.
And the DAC 10H is one more step higher, particularly when driving headphones directly or using as a preamp in a speaker setup.
I am looking forward to picking one of these up in the very near future. I recently picked up the outstanding little IDA-8 integrated from Sonic Unity as I live nearby, and I am keen on picking up the DAC-10H now to use as a DAC/pre. I was going to get the regular DAC-10, but your review convinced me that I should pony up for the 10H even though headphone listening doesn't occur as much as it used to for me....thank you for your review! I use Daphile run from USB as my main program on a purpose built HTPC as my main source.