There is one setting in the N10 where you can choose Professional/consumer, this has to do with some legacy DAC's, I hear that the consumer setting can cause a very "bland" sound with certain DAC's.
Cables can vary, but I don't believe a cable can change the sound from bad to very good.
I owned the Aurender N100H for a couple of years (USB connection to Ayre DX-5) and was very happy with that. Recently I purchased another amp (Aavik U-300, with internal DAC).
The Aurender N100H also played great connected to this amplifier but I had the possibility to try a N10, over USB the N10 was only marginally better then the N100, when using SPDIF (coax in my case) the N10 played out it's strength and basically "demolished " the N100.
IMO, if you only have a USB DAC, the N10 is not worth the extra money over the N100, but over SPDIF the extra money is worth it
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Moon 700i V2, dCS Rossini, YG Acoustics Hailey, Aurender N10, Ansuz Mainz D2
Last edited by imprezap2; 04-05-2018 at 05:12 PM.
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