NuPrime DAC-10H

Offered in two stunning finishes, either the silver or the black components offer you a choice of style to match your personal design sensibility. Regardless of where it is displayed in your home it will be a statement of discrete elegance.

It's simple, straightforward interface allows for ease of use by you, your family and your guests. Anyone can enjoy their favorite music with the NuPrime DAC-10H through a stereo amplifier and a pair of beautiful speakers or the powerful, built-in headphone amplifier that provides a personal listening experience that is second to none.

Just one listen will confirm that the NuPrime DAC-10H is at the peak of audio performance. Music emerges from a pristine background, with delicate details and nuances intact. The music you enjoy is reproduced with precision and everything you hear is natural and true to life. With ultra-low distortion and near unmeasurable levels of noise, you can experience the truth and beauty of your music. With lightning-fast, wide-range dynamics all types of music are reproduced exactly as you would hear them live. The experience is complete with the vast soundstage that the NuPrime DAC-10H creates. You will be immersed in the musical event and feel as if you are actually 'there'.

Simply stated, the NuPrime DAC-10 offers an incredibly honest, life-like, musical experience.

The Ultimate Desktop DAC and Headphone Amp

The NuPrime DAC-10H combines leading-edge technology that offers PCM 384K & DSD256 decoding with a high-power balanced headphone amplifier. To excel beyond high performance DACs cluttering the marketplace, NuPrime recognizes that merely supporting standard sampling rates and hi-res music formats using state-of-the-art chips or proprietary digital signal processing is not sufficient.  To satisfy the most discerning audiophiles, the NuPrime DAC-10H must do three things exceptionally well: 1) drive any headphones with ease; 2) deliver the utmost detail during a symphony’s quietest passages or a soundtrack’s heart-pounding explosion; and 3) all of this in the most natural sound. Simply put, the NuPrime DAC-10H is a truly musical device.

A Reference Class Preamp

To meet the requirement of customers who want to eliminate extra components in their system, a high-end preamp capable of driving the power amplifier directly is an essential part of the design. The NuPrime DAC-10H includes features borrowed from the NuForce Reference class P-20 preamp:

• Advanced, thin-film switched-resistor ladder network for controlling volume, i.e., a single resistor in the signal path at any volume setting.
• Individually adjustable volume on each input for precise source level matching.

• Volume adjustment in 99 precise, 0.5dB increments.

The Heart

As the heart of an audio system, the NuPrime DAC-10H supports an extensive number of inputs and formats.  Utilizing the world’s best performing 32-bit audio DAC is only a first step for designing the ultimate DAC.  When state-of-the-art solutions are readily available to all vendors, the experience and proprietary know-how in designing many Editor’s Choice and Product of The Year award-winning products elevate the NuPrime DAC-10H above the competition.  

Several notable features:

• Five digital and two stereo inputs for system flexibility.
• SABRE32 Reference ES9018 from ESS Technology is the world’s best-performing 32-bit audio DAC solution for high-end consumer applications and professional studio equipment. With ESS’s 32-bit Hyperstream™ DAC architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator, the SABRE32 Reference DAC delivers an unprecedented dynamic range of up to 135dB and THD+N (Total Harmonic Distortion plus Noise) of -120dB, all of which put the NuPrime DAC-10H at the industry’s cutting edge.
• Symmetrical signal processing with exact signal transmission over the entire frequency spectrum and extremely low harmonic distortion, ensuring an unadulterated musical presentation.
• Asynchronous transfer mode.
• Ultra-low-noise JFETs in the input stage for the lowest possible noise level.
• Supports DSD native playback by ASIO2.1 and DoP method.
• Sample Rate Display – 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192, 352.8, 384 kHz and DSD64 to DSD256.
• Unique dual gain settings for RCA with 2V or 4V outputs, XLR with 4V or 8V outputs; and each of the balanced and unbalanced headphone outputs with four different high power output settings.
• Exclusive driver software for Windows.

• Standard driver software for Mac.

Headphone Amplifier

Today’s best headphones can cost as much as a high-end DAC.  Their owners demand a headphone amp that fully exploits their potential.  Key features of the headphone amp:

• A 4-pin balanced and a standard 6.2mm stereo headphone amplifier outputs. 
• Output circuitry designed for use with up to two dynamic headphones. Consistent wiring and the use of XLR-4 sockets ensure excellent channel separation.

• A gain switch for use with in-ear, on-ear and over-ear headphones.

Other Features

• Linear power supply with multi-rail toroidal transformer.
• Independent left/right channel power supplies.
• 12V trigger output
• Full microprocessor control with memory retention
• Included remote control for full convenience.

• Available in stylish black or silver anodized aluminum finish

The NuPrime Sound

Just one listen confirms the NuPrime DAC-10H as a true hallmark of audio performance:

• Vast soundstage
• Lightning-fast, wide-range dynamics
• Ultra-low distortion and noise
• Music emerges from a pristine background, with delicate details and nuances intact.

Specifications

Inputs:

• 1 x USB Digital 
• 2 x Coaxial Digital S/PDIF
• 2 x Optical Digital S/PDIF

• 2 x Analog Stereo RCA

Outputs:

• Optical (up to 24 bit/192 kHz)
• Stereo RCA (Line out)
• Stereo Balanced (XLR-3 socket pre-out )
• Balanced headphone amplifier (XLR-4 socket )
• Unbalanced headphone amplifier (6.3 mm jack socket )
• USB Sampling Rates: 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96KHz, 176.4KHz, 192KHz, 352.8KHz, 384KHz and DSD 2.8MHz (DSD64) , 5.6MHz (DSD128) 11.2MHz (DSD256)
• S/PDIF Sampling Rates: 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96, 176.4KHz, 192KHz
• Maximum Sampling Rate: 24-bits
• Bit Resolution: 16-24-bits
• Frequency Response: 10Hz to 80kHz
• Max. output power:  680 mW @ 1 kHz and 600 ohm load at the XLR-4 output
• Frequency response:  < 10 Hz to > 100 kHz
• Crosstalk attenuation: min. 93 dB @ 1 kHz
• THD+N: < 0.0003%
• Dynamic range: > 115 dB @ 600 ohm load (A-weighted)
• Dimensions: 59 mm H x 215.4 mm W x 394 mm D
• Weight: 10.5  pounds ( 4.8  kg )
• Worldwide AC voltage: (90VAC~130VAC // 210VAC~ 250VAC) With Voltage Select Switch

• AC Fuse: Slow-blow,T2.5A, 250VAC