Aurender A10 Has a built in DAC. Also it can be hooked up to a outside DAC. So i hook a Yeggdrasel DAC Up to A , B it. i could hear no difference at all.
As I patiently await my Yggdrasil which I expect to receive later this month, I'll consider your statement a positive only in-so-far as the Aurender MSRP is more than twice that of the Yggy. So if they do in fact sound the same, what does that tell you?