NuPrime DAC-10 DAC/Preamplifier

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-10.

Just one listen will confirm that the NuPrime DAC-10 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-10 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.

1. The Ultimate Desktop DAC

The NuPrime DAC-10 offers leading-edge technology that offers PCM 384K & DSD256 decoding.

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-10 must do two things exceptionally well:

1) deliver the utmost detail during a symphony’s quietest passages or a soundtrack’s heart-pounding explosion

2) all of this in the most natural sound.

A Reference LE 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-10 includes features borrowed from the 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-10 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-10 above the competition.  

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 DAC 10 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;  with four different high power output settings.
• Exclusive driver software for Windows.

• Standard driver software for Mac.

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