What 8-channel DAC's are available suitable for active speaker setup as of September 2022

[odysse]

Does anyone know how flex 8 sounds against 4x10HD ? or have seen measurements of how much better it is technically.
I'm thinking of replacing my 4x10HD , a lot should have happened in 10 years or 🤔

 

[Brett]

For high performance applications:
MOTU: Ultralite mk5

But for something a bit less expensive, I strongly recommend that you look at the:
Behringer UMC1820

I have both and they're excellent, but few of the hairshirt brigade will use them as they're too easy, commercially available and don't require the massive amount of effort to get no improvement in SQ than many of the other approaches involve. Plus, no name cache.