The NuPrime IDA-16 resembles a Monster Power Bar, model 1100, most closely. It's one rack unit high, shapely, and at just 16 lbs (hence the 16 moniker), it's hardly a monster amp, yet just look at the digital specifications: 44.1 kHz to 11.2 MHz. Wozers.
That's quad-rate DSD, in addition to a CambridgeAudio DAC Magic Plus level of 384 kHz at 24 bit resoluteness. 44.1KHz, 48KHz, 88.2KHz, 96KHz, 176.4KHz, 192KHz, 352.8KHz, 384KHz and DSD 2.8MHz, 5.6MHz,11.2MHz, specifically.
The unit does not offer 32 bit sampling, nor does it offer a frequency response befitting these sampling rates (0 Hz - 192 kHz). That's surprising.
Before we go any further, since we've made reference to Cambridge, we should mention that prime numbers are supposed to be non-divisible. Thus, 16, which is divisible by 2, 4 and 8, is an odd (pardon the pun) model number for the NuPrime component. Something like 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13... say, 17, might be more apt.
For power, what it does offer is 200W at 8 ohms (That's Rotel RB-990BX or Aragon 8008BB amplifier territory, if not D-Premier land), instantaneously, 400W peak power, with 10Hz to 80kHz reproduction, and THD at 0.004 %. Wowzers.
For I/O, it offers USB input, along with 2 optical, 2 SPDIF, and 1 set of proper analogue inputs, and analogue out (proper), along with optical, and one set of standard binding-posts.
Most properly, you can place a MacBook on top of it, or a Aires, if you prefer. (The Aires won't yet stream the NuPrime's 11.2 MHz DSD, but will otherwise match the NuPrime in addition to offering 32-bit data and up to 384 kHz, otherwise, like the NuPrime IDA.)
It would go great with the SVS Audio Ultra Towers ($2000 USD/pair).
Both share a similar jib, or metric aesthetic, if you prefer.
JP
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