Timobi.......It boils down to this, Aurender A10 gives full hardware MQA decoding and internal DACs with 4TB of hard drive and 120GB solid state hard drive cache. The Aurender N10 can provide up to 8TB of hard drive, provides a 240GB solid state hard drive cache, has the astonishingly accurate OCXO clock and proprietary digital output for SPDIF coaxial, Toslink, and AES/EBU connections to an external DAC.
It appears you have a McIntosh D1100 DAC coming. Both the A10 and the N10 can feed a digital output to the D1100 but the A10 can only do it on a USB output and without MQA decoding. If MQA is something you can do without then the N10 makes the most sense for superior performance. I don't think the Aurender A10 or the N10 will disappoint you.
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Dan
STUDIO - McIntosh C1000C/P, MC2301 (2), MR88, Aurender N10, Esoteric K-01X, Shunyata Sigma spdif digital cable, Sonos Connect, PurePower 2000, Stillpoints, Furutech Flux 50, Michell Gyro SE, Michell HR Power Supply, SME 309, Ortofon Cadenza Black, Wireworld, Sonus faber Amati Anniversario
LIVING ROOM - McIntosh C2300, MC75 (2), MR85, Magnum Dynalab 205, Simaudio MOON Neo 260D-T, Schiit Audio Yggdrasil, Aurender N100H, Shunyata Sigma USB cable, Micro Seiki DD40, Ortofon Cadenza Blue, Nakamichi BX-300, Sony 60ES DAT, PS Audio P10, Furutech Flux 50, Sonos Connect, Stillpoints, Wireworld, Kimber, PMC EB1i, JL Audio f113
VINTAGE - McIntosh MA230, Tandberg 3011A tuner, Olive 04HD, Sony DTC-59ES DAT, McIntosh 4300V, JBL 4312A
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